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THE NEW MIDDLE AGES BONNIE WHEELER, SERIES EDITOR The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. PUBLISHED BY PALGRAVE: Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Patronage, and Piety Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women edited by Gavin R. G. Hambly Writers edited by Barbara Stevenson and The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Cynthia Ho Boccaccio’s Poetaphysics by Gregory B. Stone Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages Presence and Presentation: Women in the by Laurel Amtower Chinese Literati Tradition edited by Sherry J. 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Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-10514-0 All rights reserved. First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-28961-5 ISBN 978-0-230-33933-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230339330 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The inner life of women in medieval romance literature : grief, guilt, and hypocrisy / edited by Jeff Rider and Jamie Friedman. p. cm.—(New middle ages) 1. Literature, Medieval — History and criticism. 2. Women in literature. 3. Romances — History and criticism. 4. Emotions in literature. I. Rider, Jeff, 1954– II. Friedman, Jamie. III. Title. PN682.W6I56 2011 809(cid:2).9335220902—dc22 2011006477 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: August 2011 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii 1. The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature 1 Jeff Rider 2. Order, Anarchy, and Emotion in the Old French Philomena 27 Karen G. Casebier 3. What Was She Thinking? Ysolt on the Edge 53 Brînduşa E. Grigoriu 4. Moral Posturing: Virtue in Christine de Pisan’s Livre de Trois Vertus 85 Sharon C. Mitchell 5. Gesture, Emotion, and Humanity: Depictions of Mélusine in the Upton House Bearsted Fragments 107 Tania M. Colwell 6. Is She Angry or Just Sad? Grief and Sorrow in the Songs of the Trobairitz 129 Hannie van Horen Verhoosel 7. Between Concealment and Eloquence: The Idea of the Ideal Woman in Medieval Provençal Literature 147 Jennifer Rudin 8. Spiritual and Biological Mothering in Berceo’s Vida de Santa Oria 159 Emily C. Francomano 9. Writing as Resistance: Self and Survival in Leonor López de Córdoba and Teresa de Cartagena 179 Victoria Rivera-Cordero
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