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Arthurian romances --- Romances --- Scandinavian literature --- Chivalric romances --- Chivalry --- Courtly romances --- French romances --- Medieval romances --- Romances, French --- Romans courtois --- French literature --- Literature, Medieval

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Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within the broader cultural debate about the institution of queenship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Moving among a wide selection of narratives that recount the stories of queens and their lovers, McCracken explores the ways adultery is appropriated into the political structure of romance. McCracken examines the symbolic meanings and uses of the queen's body in both romance and the historical institutions of monarchy and points toward the ways medieval romance contributed to the evolving definition of royal sovereignty as exclusively male.

French literature --- To 1500 --- History and criticism --- Romances --- Adultery in literature --- Queens in literature --- Adultery in literature. --- Queens in literature. --- Chivalric romances --- Chivalry --- Courtly romances --- French romances --- Medieval romances --- Romances, French --- Romans courtois --- Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism.

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This volume honours the academic career of Professor Dhira B. Mahoney, recently retired from the Department of English at Arizona State University, who is well known for her rhetorical readings of medieval literature. Professor Mahoney’s scholarship employs rhetorical theory in readings of late medieval literature, particularly prologues and epilogues, women’s writings, and Arthuriana. As a response to her work, Romance and Rhetoric offers rhetorical readings of a variety of literary pieces from the late Middle Ages, especially for those authors and genres on which Professor Mahoney has published. Its collected essays provide interdisciplinary studies of art, social and literary history, manuscript transmission, and women’s studies in relation to texts in Middle English, Latin, German, and French. In particular, the essays in this volume focus on the writings of courtly authors such as Chaucer, Lydgate, Malory, Guillaume de Machaut, Christine de Pizan, Chrétien de Troyes, and others. In keeping with the ancient tradition of analysing rhetorical principles in the structure of an art work, they also examine the rhetoric of the manuscript art connected to these authors and the genres in which they wrote. This volume thus fills a gap in medieval literary scholarship, as it evaluates with scrutiny how rhetorical teachings or medieval poetic strategies inform the writing of romances.

Fiction --- Literary rhetorics --- anno 500-1499 --- Literature, Medieval --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- Romances --- History and criticism. --- History --- Romances $x History and criticism --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Chivalric romances --- Chivalry --- Courtly romances --- French romances --- Medieval romances --- Romances, French --- Romans courtois --- French literature --- History and criticism --- Mahoney, Dhira B. --- Literature [Medieval ] --- Rhetoric [Medieval ] --- Europe --- To 1500 --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism

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Old French literature --- Courtly love --- -Romances --- -Chivalric romances --- Chivalry --- Courtly romances --- French romances --- Medieval romances --- Romances, French --- Romans courtois --- French literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Love --- Courts of love --- Minnesingers --- Troubadours --- Trouvères --- Poetry --- Translations into English --- -Poetry --- -French literature --- Chivalric romances --- Romances

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Courtly love --- -Middle Ages --- -Dark Ages --- Chivalric romances --- Courtly romances --- French romances --- Medieval romances --- Romances, French --- Romans courtois --- Courts of love --- Minnesingers --- Trouvères --- Translations into German --- -Romances --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- Middle Ages --- World history, Medieval --- Chivalry --- Poetry --- History --- World history --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- French literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Love --- Troubadours --- Old French literature --- -Poetry