Female Authority during the Knights’ Quest ? Recluses in the Queste del Saint Graal

Female recluses were prominent in the medieval spiritual landscapes, but, unlike hermits, these vigorously enclosed women are almost non-existent in medieval romance. The thirteenth-century French Lancelot-Grail cycle is no exception, as hermits frequently instruct knights in these texts, but reclus...

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Main Author:	Anastasija Ropa
Format:	Article
Language:	fra
Published:	Centre d'Études Médievales Auxerre 2006-09-01
Series:	Bulletin du Centre d’Études Médiévales d’Auxerre
Subjects:	Arthurian literature recluses gender history Queste del Saint Graal Lancelot Perceval
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/cem/14426

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title	Female Authority during the Knights’ Quest ? Recluses in the Queste del Saint Graal
title_short	Female Authority during the Knights’ Quest ? Recluses in the Queste del Saint Graal
title_full	Female Authority during the Knights’ Quest ? Recluses in the Queste del Saint Graal
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description	Female recluses were prominent in the medieval spiritual landscapes, but, unlike hermits, these vigorously enclosed women are almost non-existent in medieval romance. The thirteenth-century French Lancelot-Grail cycle is no exception, as hermits frequently instruct knights in these texts, but recluses appear only in one of the cycle romances, the Queste del Saint Graal, and even there in two episodes. However, these two episodes are highly important in the dynamic of the quest, with two of the most prominent questers, Perceval and Lancelot, engaging in conversations with the recluses. The recluses are female, yet they instruct knights on matters of chivalric and Christian virtue in an assured, authoritative manner.
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Female Authority during the Knights’ Quest ? Recluses in the Queste del Saint Graal

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