Women, Intertextuality, Mobility: Mapping Transcultural Networks in the Fifteenth Century Prose Epic 'Herzog Herpin'
Doriane Zerka
Considering the example of fifteenth-century prose epic Herzog Herpin, attributed to Elisabeth Nassau-Saarbrücken, through lens Caroline Levine's approach networks, this essay examines constitutive role women in intra- and extra-textual constellations. Herpin is structured by networks colliding interacting with each other. The family whose story it follows, Mediterranean space that condition movement members, network intertextual references Arthurian Carolingian materials offer particularly productive examples forms which act as connective agents. In turn, Herpin's composition conditioned context evolves – a dynastic foster links between courts. Using connect without implying causality, sheds light on pattern gender-specific involvement literature relying connectivity.
Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures