 | Allegorical Bodies: Power and Gender in Late Medieval France Subjects: French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism; France -- Symbolic representation; Women in literature; Symbolism in literature; Group identity in literature; French literature -- Political aspects; France -- Politics and government -- 1328–1589; W; In Allegorical Bodies, Daisy Delogu examines how gendered literary and legal language articulated new concepts of France and Frenchness during the tumultuous reign of the mad king Charles VI (1380-1422). Delogu Daisy : Daisy Delogu is an associate professor of French literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. |
