translates to her converting to Christianity and taking the name Juliana, but this is after we see a little bit more of her as a Muslim.13 Bramimonde, as the wife of Marsile, is shown to be loyal to him, weeping when he is hurt12, blaming the gods for their plight13, and doing whatever she can to fight back when her tower is under attack14. Through these actions, Bramimonde appears to be an excellent wife and through hew doubt of her religion, she is able to be saved and finds herself in the same role as
La Chanson de Roland‘s Bramimonde *: Islam begins to be manifested in the Western literature approximately between 1100 and 1400, and it’s through this literature that the Muslim woman enters the Western imagination. Bramimonde is one of the most prominent Western representations of the Arab Muslim women in the Middle Ages. Although she was the queen, she was depicted as an overbearing and a loquacious woman, who possesses a distinctive voice and can control it according to the situation. “Her voice