Women and the Medieval Epic

Introduction; S.S.Poor & J.K.Schulman FEMALE HEROICS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER Ethical Acts and Annihilation: Feminine Heroics in Girart de Roussillon; W.Burgwinkle Women Characters and the Limits of Patriarchy in the Poema de Mio Cid and Mocedades de Rodrigo; T.Caldin Caught Between Worlds: Gendering the Maiden Warrior in Old Norse; W.Layher GENDER AND GENRE Women in the Old French Crusade Cycle and Other Epic Works: From Historical Background to Anxiety Personified; S.G.Heller Women in the Shahnameh: Exotics and Natives, Rebellious Legends, and Dutiful Histories; D.Davis Chaucer's Queer Epic; E.Salisbury Monstrous Mates: The Leading Ladies of the Nibelungenlied and V÷lsunga Saga; K.Grimstad & R.M.Wakefield 'A Guest is in the Hall': Gendered Violence at Feasts in Icelandic Epic; J.K.Schulman AUTHORSHIP, PATRONAGE, AND THE GESTURES OF LORDSHIP What Hrotsvit Did to Virgil: Expanding the Boundaries of the Classical Epic in Tenth-Century Ottonian Saxony; K.Olson Female Nobility, Patronage, and the Making of Castilian-Leonese Epic; M.Vaquero Beowulf's Queens and the Politics of Eleventh-Century England; H.Damico Brunhild's Smile: The Politics of Emotion in the Nibelungenlied; K.Starkey