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Author |
: Amy Noelle Vines |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781843842750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1843842750 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance by : Amy Noelle Vines
A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.
Author |
: Mary Carpenter Erler |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801488303 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801488306 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gendering the Master Narrative by : Mary Carpenter Erler
A new economy of power relations: female agency in the middle ages / Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski -- Women and power through the family revisited / Jo Ann McNamara -- Women and confession: from empowerment to pathology / Dyan Elliott -- "With the heat of the hungry heart": empowerment and Ancrene wisse / Nicholas Watson -- Powers of record, powers of example: hagiography and women's history / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne -- Who is the master of this narrative? Maternal patronage of the cult of St. Margaret / Wendy R. Larson -- "The wise mother": the image of St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary / Pamela Sheingorn -- Did goddesses empower women? the case of dame nature / Barbara Newman -- Women in the late medieval English parish / Katherine L. French -- Public exposure? consorts and ritual in late medieval Europe: the example of the entrance of the dogaresse of Venice / Holly S. Hurlburt -- Women's influence on the design of urban homes / Sarah Rees Jones -- Looking closely: authority and intimacy in the late medieval urban home / Felicity Riddy.
Author |
: Albrecht Classen |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 461 |
Release |
: 2012-02-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110897777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110897776 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures by : Albrecht Classen
The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and male - are heard. The study opens with an enquiry into violence against women, including in texts by male writers (Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach) which indeed describe instances of violence, but adopt an extremely critical stance towards them. It then proceeds to show how women were able to develop an independent identity in various genres and could present themselves as authorities in the public eye. Mystic texts by Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France and Margery Kempe, the medieval conduct poem known as Die Winsbeckin, the Devout Books of Sisters composed in convents in South-West Germany, but also quasi-historical documents such as the memoirs of Helene Kottaner or Anna Weckerin's cookery book, demonstrate that far more women were in the public gaze than had hitherto been assumed and that they possessed the self-confidence to establish their positions with their intellectual and their literary achievements.
Author |
: Carissa M. Harris |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 2018-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501730429 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501730428 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Obscene Pedagogies by : Carissa M. Harris
In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent. Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman's songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and The Canterbury Tales, Harris demonstrates how through its transgressive charge and galvanizing shock value, obscenity taught audiences about gender, sex, pleasure, and power in ways both positive and harmful. Harris's own voice, proudly witty and sharply polemical, inspires the reader to address these medieval texts with an eye on contemporary issues of gender, violence, and misogyny.
Author |
: R. Howard Bloch |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2009-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226059907 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226059901 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love by : R. Howard Bloch
Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are. Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the Christian construction of gender in which the flesh is feminized, the feminine is aestheticized, and aesthetics are condemned in theological terms. Tracing the underlying theme of virginity from the Church Fathers to the courtly poets, Bloch establishes the continuity between early Christian antifeminism and the idealization of woman that emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In conclusion he explains the likely social, economic, and legal causes for the seeming inversion of the terms of misogyny into those of an idealizing tradition of love that exists alongside its earlier avatar until the current era. This startling study will be of great value to students of medieval literature as well as to historians of culture and gender.
Author |
: Carol M. Meale |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 1993-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521400183 |
ISBN-13 |
: 052140018X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500 by : Carol M. Meale
This collection of essays focuses on the questions of women's access to a written culture in medieval Britain and their representation within it. It explores women's engagement with Anglo-Norman, English and Welsh as well as Latin, and addresses issues including orality and literacy and women's exclusion from a written tradition. It considers the question of the levels of literacy attained by women, and contemporary attitudes to their acquisition of such skills, as well as the historical evidence for women's activity as writers, patrons and readers. It also examines the representation of women within different literary genres, both secular and religious - their possession or lack of power, and their roles as lovers, mothers and saints. This is the first such volume to focus on these issues within the specific framework of late medieval Britain, and as such constitutes a unique contribution to the study of women and medieval literary history.
Author |
: Eileen Power |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 137 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107650152 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107650151 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Women by : Eileen Power
An accessible and clear snapshot of the life and work of women in medieval times from the nunnery to the town to the castle.
Author |
: Samuel A. Claussen |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783275465 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783275464 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Castile by : Samuel A. Claussen
First full investigation in English into the role played by chivalric ideology, and its violent results, in late medieval Castile.
Author |
: Barbara A. Hanawalt |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2007-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198042600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198042604 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wealth of Wives by : Barbara A. Hanawalt
London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages. The export of wool, the development of luxury crafts and the redistribution of goods from the continent made London one of the leading commercial cities of Europe. While capital for these ventures came from a variety of sources, the recirculation of wealth through London women was important in providing both material and social capital for the growth of London's economy. A shrewd Venetian visiting England around 1500 commented about the concentration of wealth and property in women's hands. He reported that London law divided a testator's property three ways allowing a third to the wife for her life use, a third for immediate inheritance of the heirs, and a third for burial and the benefit of the testator's soul. Women inherited equally with men and widows had custody of the wealth of minor children. In a society in which marriage was assumed to be a natural state for women, London women married and remarried. Their wealth followed them in their marriages and was it was administered by subsequent husbands. This study, based on extensive use of primary source materials, shows that London's economic growth was in part due to the substantial wealth that women transmitted through marriage. The Italian visitor observed that London men, unlike Venetians, did not seek to establish long patrilineages discouraging women to remarry, but instead preferred to recirculate wealth through women. London's social structure, therefore, was horizontal, spreading wealth among guilds rather than lineages. The liquidity of wealth was important to a growing commercial society and women brought not only wealth but social prestige and trade skills as well into their marriages. But marriage was not the only economic activity of women. London law permitted women to trade in their own right as femmes soles and a number of women, many of them immigrants from the countryside, served as wage laborers. But London's archives confirm women's chief economic impact was felt in the capital and skill they brought with them to marriages, rather than their profits as independent traders or wage laborers.
Author |
: Sarah Baechle |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2022-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271093055 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271093056 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature by : Sarah Baechle
Centering on the difficult and important subject of medieval rape culture, this book brings Middle English and Scots texts into conversation with contemporary discourses on sexual assault and the #MeToo movement. The book explores the topic in the late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle and in related literary works, including chivalric romance, devotional lyric, saints’ lives, and the works of major authors such as Margery Kempe and William Dunbar. By engaging issues that are important to feminist activism today—the gray areas of sexual consent, the enduring myth of false rape allegations, and the emancipatory potential of writing about survival—this volume demonstrates how the radical terms of the pastourelle might reshape our own thinking about consent, agency, and survivors’ speech and help uncover cultural scripts for talking about sexual violence today. In addition to embodying the possibilities of medievalist feminist criticism after #MeToo, Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature includes an edition of sixteen Middle English and Middle Scots pastourelles. The poems are presented in a critical framework specifically tailored to the undergraduate classroom. Along with the editors, the contributors to this volume include Lucy M. Allen-Goss, Suzanne M. Edwards, Mary C. Flannery, Katharine W. Jager, Scott David Miller, Elizabeth Robertson, Courtney E. Rydel, and Amy N. Vines.