[PDF.41jb] Crafting the Witch: Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)

Crafting the Witch: Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)

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 | #8988734 in Books |  Routledge |  2009-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.50 x5.98l,.90 | File type: PDF | 202 pages

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||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Oh well. They all can't be winners.|By mrs.peapod|In this text, the author talks a lot about "binary gendering" - men who take on female witchlike characteristics and women who take on those of men. There's a lot of talk about the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz (what?) and the witches in Sleeping Beauty, etc. I found the text off-topic as the title suggests MEDIEVAL witchc| ||'There is much to recommend in this book. It is engagingly written, even when dealing with difficult concepts, and the linking of medieval with modern representations of magic is fascinating, especially because many students are first attracted to stu

This book analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures occurring in Arthurian romance in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.

In the earlier texts, magic is predominantly a masculine pursuit, garnering its user prestige and power, but in the later texts, magic becomes a primarily feminine activity, one that marks its user as wicked and heretical. This project explores both the literary and the social motivations for this transfo...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Crafting the Witch: Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)   |  Heidi Breuer. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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