The Cold Counsel : The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth

The Cold Counsel : The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth

Hardback (17 Jan 2002)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780815319665
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 839.63009352042
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 544g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 22mm