Author : Robert Edwards
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851153803
Exploration of differences between women: good women who were absorbed into society, and those whose social role condemned them to its fringes.
Author : Susannah Chewning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351926357
As distinct from the many recent collections and studies of medieval literature and culture that have focused on gender and sexuality as their major themes, this collection considers and serves to re-think and re-situate religion and sexuality together. Including 'traditional' works such as Chaucer and the Pearl-poet, as well as less well known and studied texts - such as alchemical texts and the Wohunge group - the contributors here focus on the meeting point of these two often-examined concepts. They seek an understanding of where sex and religion distinguish themselves from one another, and where they do not. This volume locates the Divine and the Erotic within the continuum of experience and devotion that characterize the paradox of the medieval world. Not merely original in their approaches, these authors seek a new vision of how these two inter-connected themes - sexuality and the Divine - meet, connect, distinguish themselves, and merge within medieval life, language, and literature.
Author : Philadelphia Ricketts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9004189475
This book provides an evocative insight into the property, power, remarriage, and identity of high-ranking widows in two fundamentally different societies, Iceland and Yorkshire. The legal position of widows in each region is examined in light of evidence from charters, royal records and sagas to establish a detailed picture of practice. Comparison and family reconstruction are important elements, enabling the book to emphasize the placement of widows within the context of society and its institutions, and to consider fully the impact of individual circumstances on the widows’ opportunities for action. The result offers a fresh approach that tests widely accepted generalizations about widows’ independence, highlights differences between regions, and suggests the need to reconsider traditional, rigid definitions of kinship systems.
Author : Leonie V. Hicks
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781843833291
Presenting new light on the reality of religious life in Normandy, the author uses ideas about space and gender to examine the social pressures arising from such interaction around four main themes: display, reception and intrusion, enclosure and the family.
Author : Dorothy Yamamoto
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Animals in literature
ISBN : 9780198186748
This study analyzes the fear of beastly transformation that recurs throughout Medieval literature. Yamamoto explores how humans envisioned animals with human characteristics in bestiaries and literatures that involve aspects of the hunt and heraldry. Minor texts, as well as major works likeChaucer's "Knight's Tale," are investigated. Additionally, she explores both examples of humans changing into animal form and those that hover enigmatically between species as wild men and women. Investigating this topic, she looks to Alexander romances, the poetry of Gower, and othersources.
Author : Mavis E. Mate
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 1999-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521587334
Written primarily for undergraduates, this book weighs the evidence for and against the various theories relating to the position of women at different time periods. Professor Mate examines the major issues deciding the position of women in medieval English society, asking questions such as, did women enjoy a rough equality in the Anglo-Saxon period that they subsequently lost? Did queens at certain periods exercise real political clout or was their power limited to questions of patronage? Did women's participation in the economy grant them considerable independence and allow them to postpone or delay marriage? Professor Mate also demonstrates that class, as well as gender, was very important in determining age at marriage and opportunities for power and influence. Although some women at certain times did make short-term gains, Professor Mate challenges the dominant view that major transformations in women's position occurred in the century after the Black Death.
Author : Virginia Blanton
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271047984
Author : Tjitske Akkerman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136189718
Spanning six centuries of political thought in European history, this book puts the ideas of thinkers from Christine de Pizan to Simone de Beauvoir in the broader contexts of their time. This intriguing collection of essays shows that feminism is not a varient of modern radical discourse but a mode of analysing the issues of authority, power and virtue that have been at the heart of European political thought from the middle ages.
Author : Rachel Maines
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0801891469
The book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact.
Author : Felice Lifshitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1000864057
This collection brings together twelve essays published between 1988 and 2014, two of which are here translated into English from (respectively) their original French or German. All the essays use gender as the main category of analysis, whether of late ancient or early medieval texts or of modern medievalist films. The historical studies of medieval Europe emphasize the use of manuscript-level evidence, that is, actual sources from the period in question; arguably, this approach provides a more accurate understanding of the period than does work done on the basis of printed and edited sources. Furthermore, many of the manuscript-based essays specifically exploit liturgical or liturgy-adjacent materials; this is an area of research and a type of manuscript that has rarely been approached through a gendered lens. Meanwhile, the cinematic medievalism essays focus on the processes of remediation and adaptation, searching specifically for points at which filmmaking teams diverged from their sources as evidence for the main goals of the films (while also attending to production contexts and to reception). The juxtaposition in a single collection of scholarship on medieval manuscripts and modern movies illustrates how period specialists can contribute to conversations in the field of (historical) film studies. The book will be of interest to historians of women, gender, Christian liturgy, medieval Europe, medievalism, and historical film. (CS 1110).
