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Jerold C. Frakes.
Brides and Doom: Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women’s Epic.
Published Philadelphia: Pennsylvania U.P., 1994.
Series: The Middle Ages series.
ISBN 0812232895.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 159x235x24mm.
Page count: [viii],290pp.
Main language: English; quotations given in original language with an English translation following.
Overall condition good: not heavily worn, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £11.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 685g.

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Contents: Philology and/as patriarchy — conventions of Nibelungenlied scholarship; Women, property & power; Pillow talk — intimate conversations, political strategies; Teuton as Amazon — the devil's bride & the she-devil; The monsters, the critics, Diu Klage; Women, sovereignty & class in Kudrun; Suone as social (trans)formation; Women’s epic and/as masculist backlash.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 21pp
Index: yes


See also | Epic | Women’s studies | Germany |
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