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Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages

Author : Bonnie Wheeler

Publisher : Boydell & Brewer

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 46,47 MB

Release : 1993

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780851156507

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For the most part, the women portrayed have speak to us through intermediaries. Hildegard of Bingen, Christine de Pisan, and Ann Hutchinson's 'recusant nuns' may present themselves in their own words - though even here there are veils of concealment, dissimulation, assumption and presumption to be removed - but Chaucer's women, Chretien's patrons, Milton's Eve, the conflation of saints which comprises Wilgefortis, Ste Foy, and the imperious Theodora are presented in the words, works and social milieux of men. Where they are, ostensibly, given their own voices it is by male authors.



Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages

Author : Madeline Harrison Caviness

Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 11,3 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780812235999

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For Caviness, an awareness of historical context places pressure upon contemporary theories like that of the "male gaze," changing their shapes and creating even richer dialogues with the past."--BOOK JACKET.



The Book of Margery Kempe

Author : Margery Kempe

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 449 pages

File Size : 28,29 MB

Release : 1985

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0140432515

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The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe - wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe (c.1373-c.1440) recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her visions and uncontrollable tears, the struggle to convert her husband to a vow of chastity and her pilgrimages to Europe and the Holy Land. Margery Kempe could not read or write, and dictated her remarkable story late in life. It remains an extraordinary record of human faith and a portrait of a medieval woman of unforgettable character and courage.



Ambiguous Realities

Author : Carole Levin

Publisher : Wayne State University Press

Page : 268 pages

File Size : 46,44 MB

Release : 1987

Category : History

ISBN : 9780814318737

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Examining specific literary, historical, and theological texts, the essays in Ambiguous realities illuminate a number of important issues about women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: the changes in attitude toward women, the role and status of women, the dichotomy between public and private spheres, the prescriptions for women's behavior and the image of the ideal woman, and the difference between the perceived and the actual audience of medieval and Renaissance writers.--Back cover.



Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love

Author : R. Howard Bloch

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 38,51 MB

Release : 2009-02-15

Category : History

ISBN : 0226059901

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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.



Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100

Author : Lisa M. Bitel

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 348 pages

File Size : 12,88 MB

Release : 2002-10-24

Category : History

ISBN : 9780521597739

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This is a history of the early European middle ages through the eyes of women, combining the rich literature of women's history with original research in the context of mainstream history and traditional chronology. The book begins at the end of the Roman empire and ends with the start of the long eleventh century, when women and men set out to test the old frontiers of Europe. The book recreates the lives of ordinary women but also tells personal stories of individuals. Each chapter also questions an assumption of medieval historiography, and uses the few documents produced by women themselves, along with archaeological evidence, art, and the written records of medieval men, to tell of women, their experiences and ideas, and their relations with men. It covers the continent and its exotic edges, such as Iceland, Ireland, and Iberia; looking at women Christian and non-Christian alike.



A Companion to Medieval Art

Author : Conrad Rudolph

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 1040 pages

File Size : 37,90 MB

Release : 2019-05-07

Category : Art

ISBN : 1119077729

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A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is happening in this major area of Western art history. The volume comprises original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars who discuss the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Part of the Blackwell Companions to Art History, A Companion to Medieval Art, Second Edition features an international and ambitious range of contributions covering reception, formalism, Gregory the Great, pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, marginalized images, the concept of spolia, manuscript illumination, stained glass, Cistercian architecture, art of the crusader states, and more. Newly revised edition of a highly successful companion, including 11 new articles Comprehensive coverage ranging from vision, materiality, and the artist through to architecture, sculpture, and painting Contains full-color illustrations throughout, plus notes on the book’s many distinguished contributors A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Second Edition is an exciting and varied study that provides essential reading for students and teachers of Medieval art.



The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature

Author : Jodie Medd

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 39,2 MB

Release : 2015-12-10

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1316453561

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The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In addition to providing a helpful orientation to key literary-historical periods, critical concepts, theoretical debates and literary genres, this Companion considers the work of such well-known authors as Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Alison Bechdel and Sarah Waters. Written by a host of leading critics and covering subjects as diverse as lesbian desire in the long eighteenth century and same-sex love in a postcolonial context, this Companion delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature.



Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

Author : Margaret Schaus

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 986 pages

File Size : 46,74 MB

Release : 2006

Category : History

ISBN : 0415969441

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Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts

Author : Barbara H. Gold

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 348 pages

File Size : 39,50 MB

Release : 1997-03-13

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780791432464

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Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century.