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Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland

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Author(s): Sarah Sheehan, Ann Dooley (eds.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2013

Language: English
Tags: Gender Studies; History of Medieval Europe; Medieval Literature; Literary History

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Travelers and Settled Folk: Women, Honor, and Shame in Medieval Ireland....Pages 17-38
Sex in the Civitas: Early Irish Intellectuals and their Vision of Women....Pages 39-55
Looking for “Mr. Right” in Tochmarc Becfhola ....Pages 57-73
Playing for Power: Macha Mongrúad’s Sovereign Performance....Pages 75-93
Feasts for the Eyes: Visuality and Desire in the Ulster Cycle....Pages 95-113
They Kept their Skirts on: Gender-Bending Motifs in Early Irish Hagiography....Pages 115-132
Human Frontiers in Medieval Irish Religious Literature....Pages 133-151
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Late Medieval Irish Rómánsaíochtai ....Pages 153-169
Speaking with Forked Tongues: Gender and Narrative in the Acallam ....Pages 171-189
Back Matter....Pages 191-219