Resumen de Cross-legged knights and signification in English medieval tomb sculpture
The writer examines the motif of the distinctive cross-legged pose in England's 13th- and 14th-century knightly effigies. She applies current theoretical and historical studies of gender construction and chivalric ideologies to the question of this attitude's significance in military effigies. She contends that the overlapping lower limbs speak of a culture in which gender is inseparable from social role, suggesting that in the 13th and 14th centuries social difference was as much at issue as gender anxiety.
