Medievalists.net » La Chanson d’Yde et Olive http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 How to be a Man, Though Female: Changing Sex in Medieval Romance http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/12/how-to-be-a-man-though-female-changing-sex-in-medieval-romance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/12/how-to-be-a-man-though-female-changing-sex-in-medieval-romance/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:15:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37056 Gender participates in a series of taxonomies that structure the social order, and it therefore participates in processes beyond itself, such as Christianity and knighthood, which are equally about identity within the world of chivalric romance. Therefore, the inscription of one often helps to define the other.

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