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Chargement... Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking Worldpar Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A very readable, multidisciplinary account of women's lives in the Viking Age. Women 's thoughts and feelings are not given much attention in the ultra-male world of the sagas, but both physical and textual evidence is brought together to bring another dimension to women who often had very little control over their lives One very small quibble - I could have done without Game of Thrones references, but they only appear a couple of times aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Il n’y a guère d’imaginaire plus viril que celui des Vikings : barbares pillards à la barbe hirsute, grands explorateurs naviguant sur les mers de Scandinavie tandis que, quelque part entre Asgard et le Valhalla, Tyr et Odin ourdissent de grands combats. Mais que faisaient les femmes vikings pendant ce temps ? A la croisée des sources historiques, archéologiques et des sagas islandaises, cet ouvrage propose une relecture de la civilisation viking selon un prisme féminin. De la figure de la valkyrie qui décide du sort des guerriers au combat à la fière Guorun qui venge l’honneur des siens, on découvre une femme viking qui, loin d’être cantonnée aux tâches domestiques, explore, décide, écrit, combat parfois. Chemin faisant, l’imaginaire que nous nous faisons de cette culture s’en trouve profondément modifié. Preuve, s’il en était besoin, que l’histoire ne se fait jamais sans les femmes." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)948.022History and Geography Europe Fenno-Scandinavia Consolidation; Migration 801-1397 Viking PeriodClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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Yet such a glance would also show a slightly puzzling lack of engagement with work on the history of medieval women other than that of Jesch or Jenny Jochens. There has been so much good scholarship produced on medieval women and their engagement with power, authority, artistic patronage, religion, etc, over the past thirty years. Even if much of that work isn't directly on the Viking Age, I think it would have provided a useful set of comparatives—something against which to test Friðriksdóttir's assertions about the gendered limits of women's power in this time and place. She appears to take a more minimalist view of such things than scholars of other elite medieval women—which would be fine, if it were clearer to me whether that's because she disagrees with them or because she does not have much grounding in their work. I've also got a couple of question marks about Friðriksdóttir's framing of the archaeological evidence.
I think this will be useful to refer back to when looking for moments in the sagas which have a particular thematic relevance in relation to women, but as a general overview it's not as authoritative as I was hoping for. ( )