| Brides and Doom: Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women''s Epic Subjects: Epic poetry German -- History and criticism; German poetry -- Middle High German 1050–1500 -- History and criticism; Women -- Germany -- History -- Middle Ages 500–1500; Feminism and literature -- Germany -- History; Women and literature -- Germany --; Jerold C. Frakes approaches the Nibelungenlied , the Klage , and the Kudrun , epic poems central to the Middle High German tradition, through a set of literary, economic, and sociological interpretations, informed by a broad range of contemporary feminist scholarship. Jerold C. Frakes is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo |