Weaponizing Ordinary Objects: Women, Masculine Performance, and the Anxieties of Men in Medieval Iceland

This thesis unravels the deeper meanings attributed to ordinary objects, such as clothing and food, in thirteenth-century Icelandic literature and legal records. I argue that women weaponized these ordinary objects to circumvent their social and legal disadvantages by performing acts that medieval I...

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Main Author: Dunn, Steven T.
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2019
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Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7781
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8978&context=etd