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Female Arthurians in Scandinavia: Eufemia, Christina and the Modern Female Scholar

Female Arthurians in Scandinavia: Eufemia, Christina and the Modern Female Scholar AbstractThis article traces the line between the medieval female reader of Arthurian romance in Scandinavia and the female scholar of today. It draws attention to a number of female patrons and readers of Arthuriana in the Middle Ages, as well as to Queen Christina of Sweden in the seventeenth century. It also discusses the contribution of Scandinavian women to the scholarly field of Arthurian literary study. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the International Arthurian Society de Gruyter

Female Arthurians in Scandinavia: Eufemia, Christina and the Modern Female Scholar

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de Gruyter
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© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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10.1515/jias-2019-0003
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AbstractThis article traces the line between the medieval female reader of Arthurian romance in Scandinavia and the female scholar of today. It draws attention to a number of female patrons and readers of Arthuriana in the Middle Ages, as well as to Queen Christina of Sweden in the seventeenth century. It also discusses the contribution of Scandinavian women to the scholarly field of Arthurian literary study.

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Journal of the International Arthurian Society – de Gruyter

Published: Sep 1, 2019

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