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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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 |