Performing Women in the Middle Ages : Sex, Gender, and the Medieval Iberian Lyric
by
D. Filios
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
The New Middle Ages
ISBN-10
140396730X
ISBN-13
9781403967305
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 8th, 2005
Print length
262 Pages
Weight
474 grams
Dimensions
14.60 x 22.30 x 2.60 cms
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Unruly women constantly speak out in lyric poetry, their voices brought to life in the bodies of female singers, dancers, and instrumentalists.
Performing Women in the Middle Ages approaches medieval lyric poetry through the lens of gender and performance theory and demonstrates how comic-obscene and comic-erotic songs put identity into play, including sex/sexuality, gender, rank, and social status. Denise Filios draws on modern ethnographic and performance studies to fill gaps in the medieval written record, reconstructing lyric performances, exploring how women performed themselves as poetic characters ventriloquized by male poets, and examining how men impersonated female characters. Many of the Galician-Portuguese and Castilian poems she analyzes are available here in English for the first time. This study also explores the cultural context of these songs, including the sites within which they were sung/set and the underlying erotic associations that inform these comic-obscene and comic-erotic songs.
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