To browse Academia. This series brings together monographs, edited volumes, and textbooks from scholars specializing in gender analysis, women's studies, literary interpretation, and cultural, political, constitutional, and diplomatic history.
It aims to broaden our understanding of the strategies that queens-both consorts and regnants, as well as female regents-pursued in order to wield political power within the structures of male-dominant societies. In addition to works describing European queenship, it also includes books on queenship as it appeared in other parts of the world, such as East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Islamic civilization. This series focuses on works specializing in gender analysis, women's studies, literary interpretation, and cultural, political, constitutional, and diplomatic history.
It aims to broaden our understanding of the strategies that queensboth consorts and regnants, as well as female regents-pursued in order to wield political power within the structures of male-dominant societies. The works describe queenship in Europe as well as many other parts of the world, including East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Islamic civilization. Perceforest displaces th at threat onto stated fears of incest, miscegenation, and endogamy.
The threat of homosexuality lurks silently underneath. Ultimately, Huot's study demonstrates that the orthodox romance Perceforest subverts any myth of British ethnic purity. The history of Britain is one of conquest, ethnic rivalry, and colonization, even in the ancient and medieval world, and its empire building of later centuries is built on thi s ideological background, fictional as it may be in Perceforest.
Huot's book has much to recommend it, both to the medievalist interested in intersections of race, erhnicity, and gender in the Middle Ages and to the mod ernist with an interest in th e origins of the European coloni al ideology and the literary imagination that constructed it.
