A representação da mulher na demanda do santo graal: perfis femininos entre maniqueísmos e ambiguidades.

Abstract

The objective of this monography is to analyze the representation of women in the Middle Ages, as presented in the book A Demanda do Santo Graal through the perspective of gender studies, keeping in mind the misogynistic character of the religious discourses that dominated the relations between the sexes during the medieval period. In this way, it is intended to confirm how religion and prejudiced thinking around women influence the characterization of their identity as good or bad, through their approximation with the female models established in that period: Eve and Mary; and sometimes, when not fitted into any of these conceptions, seen as ambiguous. The process of Christianization that the book went through, seeks to overshadow the original Celtic background of the legends, and thus the stories of the Arthurian cycle are gaining more and more sacred meaning, seeking to raise Christian morals and extinguish pagan practices. The methodology used was bibliographical research, supported by gender analysis, with a qualitative approach. Through the indepth reading of the object studied here, we seek, through the choice of some female characters, to expose and analyze which of them fit better within the Manichaean vision of the time and which brought to light a certain ambiguity. To this end, the investigation is based on theoretical, analytical, historiographical and critical texts that provide the necessary support for this research. To this end, the investigation is based on authors such as Saraiva (2000), Moisés (2008), Bakhtin (1987), Barros (2004), Duby (2013),Perrot (2019), Le Goff (1994), Macedo (2002), among others, that provide the necessary support for this research. As a result of this analysis, we highlight the fact that the profile of the woman in A Demanda do Santo Graal was built mostly from the perspective of the womanEve, who are described as sinners and tempters of men, and how those considered good suffer with the mischaracterization of aspects of nature, not only feminine, but of the human being itself, to approach Mary, seen as an ideal model of woman. And finally, how the mixture of overlapping Christianity with the original Celtic aspects reproduces characters that we can identify as ambiguous.