Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture.
- Author / Editor
- Petrosillo, Sara.
Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture.
- Published
- Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2023.
- Physical Description
- xii, 200 pp.; 11 b&w illus.
- Series
- Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
- Description
- Assesses various medieval works to show that training instructions for medieval falconry "offer a means of understanding how poetic languageworks, and particularly how it works to represent women." One section describes how metaphors of mewed hawks "portend ambivalence about women," with close attention to hawking imagery applied to and used by Criseyde in TC 3.1783 and 4.1310, contrasting Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and the imagery on a fourteenth-century ivory mirror back. Also comments on hawking imagery in WBP, 415–17, and adapts material on SqT derived from Petrosillo;s 2018 essay in the journal Medieval Feminist Forum.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Squire and His Tale