“But Hold Me Fast and Fear Me Not” Comparing Gender Roles in the Ballad Tam Lin and Medieval and Renaissance Scotland.

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dc.contributor.advisorBianchini, \Jannaen_US
dc.contributor.authorConant, Charlotteen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistory/Library & Information Systemsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-14T06:51:25Z
dc.date.available2024-02-14T06:51:25Z
dc.date.issued2023en_US
dc.description.abstractTam Lin, a medieval Scottish Ballad tells the story of an unusually forceful young Lady Janet. Janet does many of the feats of strength in her story, defies her father, refuses to behave as a ‘good Christian woman’ might and suffers no consequences for her actions. She ends her story successfully married to a noble Christian man, having saved him from the evil pagan Fairy Queen. This ballad has been popular for centuries, and has been cited as a ballad unique to Scotland that represents Scottish culture. The ballad contains ideas that one might think contradictory to the ideas of a medieval Christian society, yet the ballad was so popular it had a ballet (now lost) and has survived for at least four hundred years. This dissertation examines the differences and similarities between the lack of consequences Janet suffers and what real women in Scotland from the Medieval Ages to the Early Modern period would have experienced. It also will delve into the various cultural groups that contributed to the ‘Scottish Nature’ of the ballad. Stories are told by humans all across the world, a ballad, likely sung in a group, in order to continue being told, must not go against the inherent social rules of the people performing it, or else act as a cautionary tale. However, since Janet does not end her story suffering, Tam Lin is not meant to be a cautionary tale. Why then, was this ballad, that might appear to be so contradictory to the society that was telling it, have managed to survive (and be so popular) to the current day and age.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/sxit-lwwa
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/31772
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledWomen's studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBalladsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledChild Balladen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMedievalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledScotlanden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTam Linen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWomenen_US
dc.title“But Hold Me Fast and Fear Me Not” Comparing Gender Roles in the Ballad Tam Lin and Medieval and Renaissance Scotland.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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