Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered translation work, this study, which is grounded in the relations between the west and Byzantium, examines cross-cultural marriage as a medium of literary and cultural exchange, one in which women's work was equally important as men's.
Moore's readings of Old French and Medieval Greek texts reveal the extent to which women challenged the cultures into which they married and shaped their new courtly environments. Through the lens of medieval gender and postcolonial theory, Exchanges in Exoticism demonstrates how the process of cultural exchange - and empire building - extends well beyond our traditional assumptions about gender roles in the medieval Mediterranean.
| ISBN: | 9781442644694 |
| Publication date: | 7th February 2014 |
| Author: | Megan Moore |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 200 pages |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Gender studies: women and girls European history: medieval period, middle ages Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval |
Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered translation work, this study, which is grounded in the relations between the west and Byzantium, examines cross-cultural marriage as a medium of literary and cultural exchange, one in which women's work was equally important as men's. Moore's readings of Old French and Medieval Greek texts reveal the extent to which women challenged the cultures into which they married and shaped their new courtly environments.
Exchanges in Exoticism features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism, Gender studies: women and girls, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
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Exchanges in Exoticism was written by Megan Moore and published by University of Toronto Press
Exchanges in Exoticism has 200 pages