Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship

Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship provides the first feminist analysis of the part of The History of the Kings of Britain that most readers overlook: the reigns before and after Arthur's.

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Fiona Tolhurst is Maître Assistante in Medieval and Early Modern English at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Inhalt
Introduction Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship Re-reading Empress Matilda as a Female King Geoffrey's History as Preparation for a Female King Undermining and Degrading Female Kingship in the First Variant and the Roman de Brut Delegitimizing and Erasing Female Kingship in the 'Epistola Warino Britoni,' the Chronica majora, and Layamon's Brut