The praise of Hildoara: a comparative study of the literary representation of a queen

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Oriol Dinarés Cabrerizo

The eulogy of Queen Hildoara, wife of the Visigothic king Gundemar (610-612), preserved in a consolatory letter within the epistulae Wisigothicae, contains the most complete literary description of a Visigothic queen so far. The aim of this work is to stress the importance of this text, while also carrying out a comparative study of this source with other Spanish and Merovingian consolationes and laudationes, in order to remark on the similarities and differences between the description of Hildoara and the rhetoric models of queens and women in Visigothic literature.

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VISIGOTHIC KINGDOM, LETTERS, QUEEN HILDOARA, CONSOLATIONES, GENDE

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Dinarés Cabrerizo, Oriol. “The praise of Hildoara: a comparative study of the literary representation of a queen”. Pyrenae, vol.VOL 54, no. 2, pp. 167-88, https://raco.cat/index.php/Pyrenae/article/view/419219.