TY - BOOK ID - 77891921 TI - Historical Residues in the Old Irish Legends of Queen Medb : An Expanded Interpretation of the Ulster Cycle PY - 2010 SN - 0773429557 9780773429550 9780773436497 0773436499 PB - Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, DB - UniCat KW - Epic literature, Irish -- History and criticism. KW - Tales -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- History and criticism. KW - Ulster cycle. KW - Women and literature -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland). KW - Epic literature, Irish KW - Tales KW - Women and literature KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Celtic Languages & Literatures KW - Literature KW - Folk tales KW - Folktales KW - Folk literature KW - Irish epic literature KW - Irish literature KW - History and criticism KW - Ulaid cycle KW - Tochmarc Emire KW - Táin bó Cúailnge KW - Serglige Con Culainn KW - Compert Con Culainn KW - Aided Con Culainn KW - Fled Bricrenn KW - Fled Bricrenn ocus Loinges mac nDuíl Dermait KW - Bruiden Da Choca KW - Longes mac n-Uislenn KW - Sgéal Chúchulainn ag Cuan Cárn KW - Women and literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77891921 AB - Medb of Connacht, a central female character of medieval Ireland's Ulster Cycle is read traditionally as an example of a misogynistic, patriarchal Christian campaign to suppress and silence women in early Ireland, or as symbolic of a primordial, mythic pre-Christian goddess, exempt from patriarchal censure because her behavior is ascribed to her duties as a divine sovereignty figure. In addition, this work provides the first comparative and comprehensive character analysis of the Connacht warrior queen across numerous tales in which she appears as a major player, presenting a more complete pic ER -