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This wide-ranging study explores the ideological framework of genre in Old French and Occitan literature by charting the relationship between ideology and gender in five key genres: the chansons de geste, courtly romance, the Occitan canso, hagiography, and the fabliaux. Simon Gaunt offers new readings of canonical Old French and medieval Occitan texts such as the Chanson de Roland, Chrétien de Troyes's Chevalier de la charrette, and lyrics by Bernart de Ventadorn, and in addition he considers many less well-known works and less familiar genres such as hagiography and the fabliaux. Drawing on contemporary feminist theory, he examines how masculinity, as well as femininity, is constructed in medieval French and Occitan texts, and shows that gender is a crucial element in the formation of the ideologies that underpin medieval literary genres.

Genres [Letterkundige ] --- Genres [Literaire ] --- Genres littéraires --- Hommes et femmes [Relations entre ] dans la littérature --- Letterkundige genres --- Literaire genres --- Literary form --- Man-vrouw relaties in de literatuur --- Man-woman relationships in literature --- Medieval rhetoric --- Middeleeuwse retorica --- Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature --- Retorica [Middeleeuwse ] --- Rhetoric [Medieval ] --- Rhétorique médiévale --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Sekse (Psychologie) in de literatuur --- Seksuele rolpatronen in de literatuur --- Sex (Psychology) in literature --- Sex role in literature --- Sexe (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Feminism and literature --- French literature --- Man-woman relationships in literature. --- Provençal literature --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- Sex (Psychology) in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- History. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- Literature --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Women authors --- To 1500 --- Provençal literature --- France --- French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Provenðcal literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Feminism and literature - France - History. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literary form. --- Literature and feminism