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Author : Georges Duby
Release : 1997
Genre : Social history
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Book Synopsis Women of the Twelfth Century by : Georges Duby
Download or read book Women of the Twelfth Century written by Georges Duby. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georges Duby
Release : 1998-02-28
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Women of the Twelfth Century, Volume 2 by : Georges Duby
Download or read book Women of the Twelfth Century, Volume 2 written by Georges Duby. This book was released on 1998-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, one of the greatest medieval historians of our time continues his rich and illuminating inquiry into the lives of twelfth-century women. Georges Duby bases his account on a twelfth-century genre that commemorated the virtues of noblewomen who had died and the roles they came to play in the history of their lineage. From these genealogical works a vivid picture emerges of the lives these women led, the values they held, and the way in which they were viewed by the ecclesiastical and chivalric writers who immortalized them. The first section outlines the ways in which the dead—in both memory and legend—served to bond noble society in the twelfth century. Drawing on the Gesta by Dudo of Saint Quentin, the second section reflects on the roles that wives, concubines, and other women played during times of war and in the great exchanges of power that established the grand lineages of the Middle Ages. The third section reconstructs women as wives, mothers, and widows through the work of Lambert, Priest of Ardres.
Author : Alison I. Beach
Release : 2004-04-29
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Women as Scribes by : Alison I. Beach
Download or read book Women as Scribes written by Alison I. Beach. This book was released on 2004-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Beach's book on female scribes in twelfth-century Bavaria - a full-length study of the role of women copyists in the Middle Ages - is underpinned by the notion that the scriptorium was central to the intellectual revival of the Middle Ages and that women played a role in this renaissance. The author examines the exceptional quantity of evidence of female scribal activity in three different religious communities, pointing out the various ways in which the women worked - alone, with other women, and even alongside men - to produce books for monastic libraries, and discussing why their work should have been made visible, whereas that of other female scribes remains invisible. Beach's focus on manuscript production, and the religious, intellectual, social and economic factors which shaped that production, enables her to draw wide-ranging conclusions of interest not only to palaeographers but also to those interested in reading, literacy, religion and gender history.
Author : Susan M. Johns
Release : 2003-09-20
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm by : Susan M. Johns
Download or read book Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm written by Susan M. Johns. This book was released on 2003-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of noblewomen in 12th-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It draws on a rich mix of evidence to offer an important reconceptualization of women's role in aristocratic society, and in doing so suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages. The book considers a wide range of literary sources such as chronicles, charters, seals and governmental records to draw out a detailed picture of noblewomen in the 12th-century Anglo-Norman realm. It asserts the importance of the lifecycle in determining the power of these aristocratic women, thereby demonstrating that the influence of gender on lordship was profound, complex and varied.
Author : Georges Duby
Release : 1998-08-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Women of the Twelfth Century, Volume 3 by : Georges Duby
Download or read book Women of the Twelfth Century, Volume 3 written by Georges Duby. This book was released on 1998-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Georges Duby studies the relationship between the Church and women in twelfth-century Europe. By that time, the Church had begun to see the evolving roles and expectations of women as serious matters, resulting in a wide range of clerical writings addressing "the woman question." Drawing on these writings, Duby describes how women were thought to embody particular sins, such as sorcery, disobedience, and licentiousness. He evaluates Eve's role in man's fall from grace in the Garden of Eden and analyzes the reasoning behind the view that women are unstable, curious, frivolous creatures. He also notes that these charges are leveled against women, even as praise is heaped upon them for the conventional virtues they exhibit in their roles as wives and mothers. As the final installment in Duby's three-volume study of French noblewomen of the twelfth century, Eve and the Church is the last work of this superb historian. It will be of interest to scholars of medieval history and women's history as well as to anyone interested in current debates about women and religion. Georges Duby (1919-1996) was a member of the Académie française and for many years held the distinguished chair in medieval history at the Collège de France. His books include The Three Orders; The Age of Cathedrals; The Knight, the Lady, and the Priest; Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages; and History Continues, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
