Gender Bonds, Gender Binds: Women, Men, and Family in Middle High German Literature

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Gender Bonds, Gender Binds

Women, Men, and Family in Middle High German Literature

Edited by: Sara S. Poor , Alison L. Beringer and Olga V. Trokhimenko

Volume 3 in the series Sense, Matter, and Medium

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110729191

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While Gender Studies has made its mark on literary studies, much scholarship on the German Middle Ages is largely inaccessible to the Anglo-American audience. With gender at its core as a category of analysis, "Gender Bonds, Gender Binds"uniquely opens up medieval German material to English speakers. Recognizing the impact of Ann Marie Rasmussen’s Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature, this transatlantic volume expands on questions introduced in her 1997 book and subsequent work. More than a mere tribute, the collection moves the debates forward in new directions: it examines how gender bonds together people, practices, texts, and interpretive traditions, while constraining and delimiting these things socially, ideologically, culturally, or historically. As the contributions demonstrate, a close, materially focused analysis produces complex results, not easily reduced to a platitude. The essays steer a firm course through the terrain of gender bonds and binds, many of which remain challenging in the present. Herein lies the broader reach of this volume, for understanding the longevity of patriarchy and its effects on human relations demonstrates how crucial the study of the past can be for us as a society today.

Author / Editor information

Sara S. Poor, Princeton Univ., USA; Alison L. Beringer, Montclair State Univ., USA; Olga V. Trokhimenko, UNCW, Wilmington, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Sara S. Poor, Alison L. Beringer and Olga V. Trokhimenko Publicly Available Download PDF	1
1 Peddling Devotion: Mothers and Daughters in Conversation Through Books Sara S. Poor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2 Why Siegfried Has to Die: Gender, Violence, and the Social Order in the Nibelungenlied Mary Marshall Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3 “If You Are Desired, Then You Are Worthy”: Mothers, Daughters, and Paradoxes of Femininity in the Middle High German Tristan Sequels Olga V. Trokhimenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
4 Maternal Bonds in Konrad Fleck’s Flôre und Blanscheflûr Katja Altpeter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
5 Teaching a Daughter Sexual Desire and Love Lore: Herzeloyde’s Mentorship of Sigune in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Titurel and Albrecht von Scharfenberg’s Jüngerer Titurel Evelyn Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
6 Mothers and Daughters Revisited: The Mother-Daughter Songs in the Context of the Later Neidhart Tradition Ingrid Bennewitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
7 Rivalrous Masculinities: Competing Concepts of Knighthood in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Sermon In Praise of the New Knighthood and Hartmann von Aue’s Novella Gregorius Andreas Kraß Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
8 A Fate Worse than Death? Virgil’s “steinîn wîp” in Jans der Enikel’s Weltchronik Alison L. Beringer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
9 Love and Disgust: Ambiguous Genres and Ambivalent Feelings in Herzmäre Jutta Eming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars in Medieval Studies, Gender Studies, History and Literary History, Media Studies and Religious Studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 223
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Coloured Illustrations: 7
Keywords: Gender; medieval literature; materiality

eBook

Published: May 10, 2021
ISBN: 9783110729191

Hardcover

Published: May 10, 2021
ISBN: 9783110729054

Paperback

Published: December 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783111121796