Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture

Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture by Sara Petrosillo
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Dedication
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION • Falconry Culture as Reading Practice
CHAPTER 1 • Control: Aesthetics of Training in Frederick II’s De arte venandi cum avibus
	HAWKING VERSUS HUNTING
	AESTHETICS OF FALCONRY
	THE CONTRADICTIONS OF CATEGORIES
CHAPTER 2 • Release: Sexual Dimorphism as Poetic Form in the Sonnet “Tapina in me”
	“TAPINA IN ME” AND THE VATICAN CANZONIERE
	SIGILLOGRAPHIC IMAGERY
	AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE LOVE-LOSS NARRATIVE
CHAPTER 3 • Enclosure: Reading Marie de France’s Yonec through the Harley 978 Hawking Treatise
	TO KEEP AND TO WATCH IN THE HARLEY HAWKING TREATISE, FOLS. 116V–117R
	MARIE’S YONEC: AUTHORING HER OWN ENCLOSURE
CHAPTER 4 • Seeling: Sir Orfeo’s Heurodis and Memory Training in the Auchinleck Lay
	SEELING AND SELF-MUTILATION IN FALCONRY
	HEURODIS AND THE PROBLEMS OF MEMORY
	HAWKING HEURODIS
	LOOKING BACK TO EURYDICE
CHAPTER 5 • Mewing: Molting the Literary Trope of the Changeable Woman in Adultery Narratives
	BIRDS OF A FEATHER IN CLIGÈS
	SHEDDING FEATHERS: FAUCON FROM FABLIAU TO ROMANCE
	MEWING IN ALLEGORY: MACHAUT’S LE DIT DE L’ALERION
	CRISEYDE IN AND OUT OF MEW
CONCLUSION • Healing: Squire’s Tale, Metonymy, and Female Falconers
APPENDIX • A Guide to Terminology
	THE BIRDS
	RAPTOR LIFE CYCLE
	FALCONRY ACCOUTREMENTS
	FALCONRY ACTIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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