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Women’S Acts Of Childbirth And Conquest In English Historical Writing, Emma O. Bérat
Women’S Acts Of Childbirth And Conquest In English Historical Writing, Emma O. Bérat
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This essay explores how female characters in historical literature written in high to late medieval England shape land claims, political history, and genealogy through their acts of childbirth. Recent scholarship has shown how medieval writers frequently imagined virginal female bodies – religious and secular – in relation to land claim, but less work exists on how they also used the non-virginal bodies of mothers and vivid descriptions of childbirth to assert rights to land and lineage. This essay examines three birth stories associated with conquest or claims to contested lands from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae, William of …
Bibliography: Women And Medicine, No.37 2004 , Monica Green
Bibliography: Women And Medicine, No.37 2004 , Monica Green
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Bibliography: Women And Medicine, No.35 2003 , Monica Green
Bibliography: Women And Medicine, No.35 2003 , Monica Green
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.