Reading Women In Late Medieval Europe
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Author |
: Alfred Thomas |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2016-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137542601 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137542608 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe by : Alfred Thomas
Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect that came to greatly affect his writing.
Author |
: Alfred Thomas |
Publisher |
: Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2014-01-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1349570656 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781349570652 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe by : Alfred Thomas
Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect that came to greatly affect his writing.
Author |
: Jennifer Ward |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2014-06-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317888598 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317888596 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women in Medieval Europe by : Jennifer Ward
Women in Medieval Europe were expected to be submissive, but such a broad picture ignores great areas of female experience. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, women are found in the workplace as well as the home, and some women were numbered among the key rulers, saints and mystics of the medieval world. Opportunities and activities changed over time, and by 1500 the world of work was becoming increasingly restricted for women. Women of all social groups were primarily engaged with their families, looking after husband and children, and running the household. Patterns of work varied geographically. In the northern towns, women engaged in a wide range of crafts, with a small number becoming entrepreneurs. Many of the poor made a living as servants and labourers. Prostitution flourished in many medieval towns. Some women turned to the religious life, and here opportunities burgeoned in the thirteenth century. The Middle Ages are not remote from the twenty-first century; the lives of medieval women evoke a response today. The medieval mother faced similar problems to her modern counterpart. The sheer variety of women’s experience in the later Middle Ages is fully brought out in this book.
Author |
: Mary Erler |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820323817 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820323810 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women and Power in the Middle Ages by : Mary Erler
Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority--violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of civic life through the exercise of law and force. The wives and consorts of these powerful men have generally been viewed as decorative attendants, while common women were presumed to have had no power or consequence. Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped such portrayals, Women and Power in the Middle Ages reveals the varied manifestations of female power in the medieval household and community--from the cultural power wielded by the wives of Venetian patriarchs to the economic power of English peasant women and the religious power of female saints. Among the specific topics addresses are Griselda's manipulation of silence as power in Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale"; the extensive networks of influence devised by Lady Honor Lisle; and the role of medieval women book owners as arbiters of lay piety and ambassadors of culture. In every case, the essays seek to transcend simple polarities of public and private, male and female, in order to provide a more realistic analysis of the workings of power in feudal society.
Author |
: Alfred Thomas |
Publisher |
: Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1137544198 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781137544193 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe by : Alfred Thomas
Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect that came to greatly affect his writing.
Author |
: Linda Olson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 536 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X004863464 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voices in Dialogue by : Linda Olson
This book provides insights into the intellectual lives, spiritual culture, and literary authorship of medieval women.
Author |
: Margaret C. Schaus |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 986 |
Release |
: 2006-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135459673 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135459673 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women and Gender in Medieval Europe by : Margaret C. Schaus
From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status dictated all aspects of women's lives during the middle ages. A cross-disciplinary resource, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE, i.e., from the fall of the Roman Empire to the discovery of the Americas. Moving beyond biographies of famous noble women of the middles ages, the scope of this important reference work is vast and provides a comprehensive understanding of medieval women's lives and experiences. Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Entries that range from 250 words to 4,500 words in length thoroughly explore topics in the following areas: · Art and Architecture · Countries, Realms, and Regions · Daily Life · Documentary Sources · Economics · Education and Learning · Gender and Sexuality · Historiography · Law · Literature · Medicine and Science · Music and Dance · Persons · Philosophy · Politics · Political Figures · Religion and Theology · Religious Figures · Social Organization and Status Written by renowned international scholars, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe is the latest in the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages. Easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be an invaluable resource on women in Medieval Europe.
Author |
: Sabrina Corbellini |
Publisher |
: Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCBK:C099714123 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultures of Religious Reading in the Late Middle Ages by : Sabrina Corbellini
Read often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page. - St Jerome, 384 AD With these words, the Church Father Jerome exhorted the young Eustochium to find on the sacred page the spiritual nourishment that would give her the strength to live a life of chastity and to keep her monastic vows. His call to read does not stand alone. Books and reading have always played a pivotal role in early and medieval Christianity, often defined as 'a religion of the book'. A second important stage in the development of the 'religion of the book' can be attested in the late Middle Ages, when religious reading was no longer the exclusive right of men and women living in solitude and concentrating on prayer and meditation. Changes in the religious landscape and the birth of new religious movements transformed the medieval town into a privileged area of religious activity. Increasing literacy opened the door to a new and wider public of lay readers. This seminal transformation in the late medieval cultural horizon saw the growing importance of the vernacular, the cultural and religious emancipation of the laity, and the increasing participation of lay people in religious life and activities. This volume presents a new, interdisciplinary approach to religious reading and reading techniques in a lay environment within late medieval textual, social, and cultural transformations.
Author |
: Emilie Amt |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2013-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134720606 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134720602 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women's Lives in Medieval Europe by : Emilie Amt
Praise for the first edition: 'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its richness, and in its genuine clarity and simplicity will takes prominent place in our expanded, diversified medieval curriculum, a curriculum that takes class, gender, and ethnicity as central to an understanding of world cultural history.' - The Medieval Review Long considered to be a definitive and truly groundbreaking collection of sources, Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe uniquely presents the everyday lives and experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This indispensible text has now been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect new research, and includes previously unavailable source material. This new edition includes expanded sections on marriage and sexuality, and on peasant women and townswomen, as well as a new section on women and the law. There are brief introductions both to the period and to the individual documents, study questions to accompany each reading, a glossary of terms and a fully updated bibliography. Working within a multi-cultural framework, the book focuses not just on the Christian majority, but also present material about women in minority groups in Europe, such as Jews, Muslims, and those considered to be heretics. Incorporating both the laws, regulations and religious texts that shaped the way women lived their lives, and personal narratives by and about medieval women, the book is unique in examining women’s lives through the lens of daily activities, and in doing so as far as possible through the voices of women themselves.
Author |
: Christa Grössinger |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0719041090 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780719041099 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art by : Christa Grössinger
This extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of the rich plethora of woodcuts, the author charts how the images of women changed during the period and proposes two basic categories - the Virgin and Eve, good and evil. Within these, however, we discover attitudes to sinful, foolish, married and unmarried women and the style and use of these images exposes the full extent of the misogyny entrenched in medieval society.