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  • 9 - The Construction and Interrogation of Gender in Old French Romance

  • Edited by Roberta L. Krueger, Hamilton College, New York
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance
    Published online:
    11 May 2023
    Print publication:
    25 May 2023, pp 135-149

  • Summary

    Focusing on the so-called “romances of adventure” (romans d’aventure) which made up the largest and most popular category of romances, this chapter provides representative glimpses of how complicated, and fluid, the presentation of gender is in romance. It primarily examines romances written in French because they were the earliest to be written and served as the model for most of those we find in other western European languages, as it explores how binaries such as passive/active and male/female were complicated by deliberate strategies on the part of authors (and patrons).