Article: Rosemarie Deist, Gender and Power: Counsellors and their Masters in Antiquity and Medieval Courtly Romance.(Book Review)

Rosemarie Deist, Gender and Power: Counsellors and their Masters in Antiquity and Medieval Courtly Romance, Beitrage zur alteren Literaturgeschichte (Heidelberg: Winter, 2003). 259 pp. ISBN 3-8253-1468-5. 40.00 [euro].

This is a wide-ranging study of minor characters who in some way counsel the protagonists in Chretien de Troyes's romances, with considerable additional attention being paid to their ancient influences and their German variations. Deist's prime interest is the character constellations in which these counsellors are involved.

The prototype of such figures, according to Deist, is the 'old nurse', a stock character in Euripides' plays, ...

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