Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 7374
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Chinca , M.
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  • Title: Women and Hunting-Birds are Easy to Tame: Aristocratic Masculinity and the Early German Love-Lyric [the author suggests two different interpretations of Der Von Kürenberg's lyrics; the first assumes an exclusively male audience and gives the songs the role of reproducing and reinforcing patriarchal masculinity while the second model posits a mixed audience interested in debating masculinity.]
  • Source: Masculinity in Medieval Europe.  Edited by D.M. Hadley.  Women and Men in History Series. Addison Wesley Longman, 1999.  Pages 199 - 213.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Der Von Kurenberg, Poet Literature- Verse Masculinity in Literature Minnesang, Literary Genre Noble Men in Literature Performance Practice
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 12
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Cambridge
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  • Year of Publication: 1999.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0582316448