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Exchanges in Exoticism : Cross-Cultural Marriage and the Making of the Mediterranean in Old French Romance / Megan Moore.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781442644694
  • 9781442661363
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 840.9/35837 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Women and the Making of Mediterranean Identities in Cligès and Digenis Akritas -- 2. Exchanging Exoticism: Narrating Mediterranean Nobility in Floire et Blancheflor -- 3. Masculinities and the Geographies of Empire in Thirteenth-Century Incest Romances -- 4. Rewriting Mediterranean Gender and Power in Floriant et Florete -- Conclusion: Rereading the Intersections of the Mediterranean -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered translation work, this study, which is grounded in the relations between the west and Byzantium, examines cross-cultural marriage as a medium of literary and cultural exchange, one in which women's work was equally important as men’s. Moore's readings of Old French and Medieval Greek texts reveal the extent to which women challenged the cultures into which they married and shaped their new courtly environments. Through the lens of medieval gender and postcolonial theory, Exchanges in Exoticism demonstrates how the process of cultural exchange – and empire building – extends well beyond our traditional assumptions about gender roles in the medieval Mediterranean.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Women and the Making of Mediterranean Identities in Cligès and Digenis Akritas -- 2. Exchanging Exoticism: Narrating Mediterranean Nobility in Floire et Blancheflor -- 3. Masculinities and the Geographies of Empire in Thirteenth-Century Incest Romances -- 4. Rewriting Mediterranean Gender and Power in Floriant et Florete -- Conclusion: Rereading the Intersections of the Mediterranean -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered translation work, this study, which is grounded in the relations between the west and Byzantium, examines cross-cultural marriage as a medium of literary and cultural exchange, one in which women's work was equally important as men’s. Moore's readings of Old French and Medieval Greek texts reveal the extent to which women challenged the cultures into which they married and shaped their new courtly environments. Through the lens of medieval gender and postcolonial theory, Exchanges in Exoticism demonstrates how the process of cultural exchange – and empire building – extends well beyond our traditional assumptions about gender roles in the medieval Mediterranean.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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