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Author : Katherine Weikert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275120
SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion. A ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest.
Author : Basil Arnould Price,Jane Elizabeth Bonsall,Meagan Khoury
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031126475
This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities questions how medieval people, texts, images, and ideas move across physiological, geographical, literary, and spiritual boundaries. In what ways do these movements afford new configurations of gender, sexuality, and being? Enacting a dialogue between medieval studies, feminist thought, and queer theory, Medieval Mobilities proposes that attending to the undulations of premodern gender and sexuality may help destabilize unstated assumptions about ways of being and loving in the Middle Ages. This volume also brings together emergent and established scholars to challenge an increasingly static academy and instead envision a scholarly practice focused on intergenerational, international, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Drawing upon wide range of primary sources and theoretical frameworks, the resultant essays unsettle the imagined fixity of gender and propose alternative conceptualizations of embodiment, identity, and difference in the medieval world.
Author : Kathryn Loveridge,Liz Herbert McAvoy,Sue Niebrzydowski,Vicki Kay Price
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843846567
Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and period boundaries. Since the closing decades of the twentieth century, medieval women's writing has been the subject of energetic conversation and debate. This interest, however, has focused predominantly on western European writers working within the Christian tradition: the Saxon visionaries, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Gertrude the Great, for example, and, in England, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe are cases in point. While this present book acknowledges the huge importance of such writers to women's literary history, it also argues that they should no longer be read solely within a local context. Instead, by putting them into conversation with other literary women and their cultures from wider geographical regions and global cultures - women from eastern Europe and their books, dramas and music; the Welsh gwraig llwyn a pherth (woman of bush and brake); the Indian mystic, Mirabai; Japanese women writers from the Heian period; women saints from across Christian Europe and those of eleventh-century Islam or late medieval Ethiopia; for instance - much more is to be gained in terms of our understanding of the drivers behind and expressions of medieval women's literary activities in far broader contexts. This volume considers the dialogue, synergies, contracts and resonances emerging from such new alignments, and to help a wider, multidirectional development of this enquiry into women's literary cultures.
Author : Ryan Lavelle,Simon Roffey,Katherine Weikert
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789256260
Winchester’s identity as a royal centre became well established between the ninth and twelfth centuries, closely tied to the significance of the religious communities who lived within and without the city walls. The reach of power of Winchester was felt throughout England and into the Continent through the relationships of the bishops, the power fluctuations of the Norman period, the pursuit of arts and history writing, the reach of the city’s saints, and more. The essays contained in this volume present early medieval Winchester not as a city alone, but a city emmeshed in wider political, social, and cultural movements and, in many cases, providing examples of authority and power that are representative of early medieval England as a whole.
Author : Benjamin Pohl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108482974
Offers a comparative cultural history of north-western Europe in the crucial period of the eleventh century.
Author : Cate Gunn,Liz Herbert McAvoy,Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846628
Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker. Silence was a much-lauded concept in the Middle Ages, particularly in the context of religious literature directed at women. Based on the Pauline prescription that women should neither preach nor teach, and should at all times keep speech to a minimum, the concept of silence lay at the forefront of many devotional texts, particularly those associated with various forms of women's religious enclosure. Following the example of the Virgin Mary, religious women were exhorted to speak seldom, and then only seriously and devoutly. However, as this volume shows, such gendered exhortations to silence were often more rhetorical than literal. The contributions range widely: they consider the English 'Wooing Group' texts and female-authored visionary writings from the Saxon nunnery of Helfta in the thirteenth century; works by Richard Rolle and the Dutch mystic Jan van Ruusbroec in the fourteenth century; Anglo-French treatises, and books housed in the library of the English noblewoman Cecily Neville in the fifteenth century; and the resonant poetics of women from non-Christian cultures. But all demonstrate the ways in which silence, rather than being a mere absence of speech, frequently comprised a form of gendered articulation and proto-feminist point of resistance. They thus provide an apt commemoration and celebration of the deeply innovative work of Catherine Innes-Parker (1956-2019), the respected feminist scholar and a pioneer of this important field of study.
Author : Anna McKay
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843847137
Uncovers the female voices, lived experiences, and spiritual insights encoded by the imagery of textiles in the Middle Ages.For millennia, women have spoken and read through cloth. The literature and art of the Middle Ages are replete with images of women working cloth, wielding spindles, distaffs, and needles, or sitting at their looms. Yet they have been little explored. Drawing upon the burgeoning field of medieval textile studies, as well as contemporary theories of gender, materiality, and eco-criticism, this study illustrates how textiles provide a hermeneutical alternative to the patriarchally-dominated written word. It puts forward the argument that women's devotion during this period was a "fabricated" phenomenon, a mode of spirituality and religious exegesis expressed, devised, and practised through cloth. Centred on four icons of female devotion (Eve, Mary, St Veronica, and - of course - Christ), the book explores a broad range of narratives from across the rich tapestry of medieval English literature, from the fields of Piers Plowman to the late medieval Morte D'arthur; the devotions of Margery Kempe to the visionary experiences of Julian of Norwich; Gervase of Tilbury's fabulous Otia Imperialia to the anchoritic guidance literature of the Middle Ages; and the innumerable (and oft-forgotten) lives of Christ, prayers, legends, and miracle tales in between.ture, from the fields of Piers Plowman to the late medieval Morte D'arthur; the devotions of Margery Kempe to the visionary experiences of Julian of Norwich; Gervase of Tilbury's fabulous Otia Imperialia to the anchoritic guidance literature of the Middle Ages; and the innumerable (and oft-forgotten) lives of Christ, prayers, legends, and miracle tales in between.ture, from the fields of Piers Plowman to the late medieval Morte D'arthur; the devotions of Margery Kempe to the visionary experiences of Julian of Norwich; Gervase of Tilbury's fabulous Otia Imperialia to the anchoritic guidance literature of the Middle Ages; and the innumerable (and oft-forgotten) lives of Christ, prayers, legends, and miracle tales in between.ture, from the fields of Piers Plowman to the late medieval Morte D'arthur; the devotions of Margery Kempe to the visionary experiences of Julian of Norwich; Gervase of Tilbury's fabulous Otia Imperialia to the anchoritic guidance literature of the Middle Ages; and the innumerable (and oft-forgotten) lives of Christ, prayers, legends, and miracle tales in between.
Author : Lynneth Miller Renberg
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781783277476
A lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception of dancers changed from saints dancing after Christ into cows dancing after the devil.
Author : Kathryn Maude
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Women
ISBN : 9781843845966
An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.
Author : Konrad Eisenbichler,Jacqueline Murray
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781837651702
Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period of huge change. Premodern masculinity was multivalent and dynamic, a series of intersecting, conflicting, and mutating identities that nevertheless were distinct and recognizable to people and their societies. The articles collected here examine a variety of means by which masculinity was constructed, deconstructed, and transformed across time, geographies, and cultures. Articles range across the twelfth to seventeenth century, from western Europe to the Volga-Ural region, from the Christian west to the Muslim east, from Ottomans to Mongols and Persians, from Baudri of Bourgueil to Blaise de Monluc; while topics include the chivalric hero, the effeminate man, beards, and spurs, represented variously in literature, historical documents, and art. Finally, in that period of great transformation that is the sixteenth century, they show how masculinity moved away from the traditional and recognizable to become something different and distinct from its premodern expressions.
Author : Juliette Vuille
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843845898
First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature.
Author : Sarah Kerr
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781783277575
This book draws on architectural and archaeological analysis to consider the form, function, use and meaning of late medieval lodging ranges. While we know a great deal about most elements of the late medieval great house, we understand very little about their lodging ranges, and even less on their contributions to the lived experience of the household and wider society. Why were lodging ranges built, for example, and how were they used? It is this gap in our knowledge which the present book aims to fill. It draws on archaeological and architectural analysis of lodging ranges to show that they were some of the finest living spaces within the great house, built as accommodation for high-ranking members of the household. Their low-, even single-, occupancy rooms, accessible via individual doors, were innovatory, showing how the idea of privacy developed. The explicit displays of uniformity upon the lodging ranges' symmetrical facades were juxtaposed with variations within. Surviving lodging ranges (including Wingfield Manor, Middleham Castle and Dartington Hall) are examined, alongside the lost example of Caister Castle, demonstrating how lodging ranges simultaneously reflected and shaped medieval life; the author argues that their very form and stones, and their manipulation of space, enabled them to have multi-faceted functions, including the representation of multiple and even conflicting identities.
Author : Ryan Lavelle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783273737
First full examination of why and how certain locations were chosen for opposition to power, and the meaning they conveyed.
Author : Lucy M. Allen-Goss
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843845706
An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance.
Author : E. Amanda McVitty
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275557
Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.
