Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Feminist Origins of the Arthurian Legend

Fiona Tolhurst is Maître Assistante in Medieval and Early Modern English at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

• Introduction Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Feminist Origins of the Arthurian Legend Geoffrey of Monmouth's Arthurian Section as Feminist Legend Complicating and Undermining Feminist Legend in the Roman de Brut Displacing Feminist Legend in La?amon's Brut Geoffrey of Monmouth's Life of Merlin as Feminist Text Conclusion

"Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Feminist Origins of the Arthurian Legend is smart, solid, and even. Its clear and precise prose makes it a highly enjoyable read. The reader leaves reevaluating gender ideas about the Middle Ages. Most important, Tolhurst makes it quite hard - even impossible - not to accept that Geoffrey was a feminist of his day . . . Scholars of Geoffrey, Wace, and Layamon will find this book enlightening and indispensable, as will Arthurian and medieval gender scholars more broadly." - The Medieval Review