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Author : Mary C. Erler
Release : 2006-03-09
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 570/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England by : Mary C. Erler
Download or read book Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England written by Mary C. Erler. This book was released on 2006-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of medieval women offer new insights into networks of female book ownership and exchange.
Author : Mary Erler
Release : 1988
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 810/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women and Power in the Middle Ages by : Mary Erler
Download or read book Women and Power in the Middle Ages written by Mary Erler. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Christiania Whitehead
Release : 2000-01-01
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 033/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Writing Religious Women by : Christiania Whitehead
Download or read book Writing Religious Women written by Christiania Whitehead. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of commissioned essays explores women's vernacular theology through a wide range of medieval prose and verse texts, from saints' lives to visionary literature. Employing a historicist methodology, the essays are sited at the intersection of two discursive fields: female spiritual practice and female textual practice. The contributors are primarily interested in the relation of women to religious books, as writers, receivers, and as objects of representation. They focus on historical approaches to the question of women's spirituality, and generically unrestricted examinations of issues of female literacy, book ownership, and reading practice. The essays are grouped under four main themes: the influence of anchoritic spirituality upon later lay piety, Carthusian links with female spirituality, the representation of femininity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English religious poetry, and veneration, performance and delusion in the Book of Margery Kempe.
Author : Alfred Thomas
Release : 2016-04-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 608/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe by : Alfred Thomas
Download or read book Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe written by Alfred Thomas. This book was released on 2016-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Christine Peters
Release : 2003-05-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 625/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Patterns of Piety by : Christine Peters
Download or read book Patterns of Piety written by Christine Peters. This book was released on 2003-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new interpretation of the transition from Catholicism to Protestantism in the English Reformation, and explores its implications for an understanding of women and gender. It argues that late medieval Christocentric piety shaped the nature of the Reformation, and reasseses assumptions that the 'loss' of the Virgin Mary and the saints was detrimental to women. In defining the representative frail Christian as a woman devoted to Christ, the Reformation could not be an alien environment for women, while the Christocentric tradition encouraged the questioning of gender stereotypes.
