Girl Culture In The Middle Ages And Renaissance

Author : Deanne Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350343221

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Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories of the actress begin with the Restoration, this book demonstrates that the girl is actually a well-documented category of performer and a key participant in the drama of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It explores evidence of the girl actor in archival records of payment, eyewitness accounts, stage directions, paintings, and in the plays and masques that were explicitly composed for girls, and, in some cases, by them. Contradicting previous scholarly assumptions about the early modern stage as male-dominated, this evidence reveals girls' participation in medieval religious drama, Tudor civic pageants and royal entries, Elizabethan country house entertainments, and Stuart court and household masques. This book situates its historical study of the girl actor within the wider contexts of 'girl culture', including girls as singers, translators and authors. By examining the impact of the girl actor on constructions of girlhood in the work of Shakespeare – whose girl characters register and evoke the power of the performing girl – Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance argues that girls' dramatic, musical and literary performances actively shaped medieval and early modern culture. It shows how the active presence and participation of girls shaped medieval and Renaissance culture, and it reveals how some of its best-known literary and dramatic texts address, represent, and reflect upon girl children, not as an imagined ideal, but as a lived reality.

Author : Mary Beth Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001011703

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Author : Deanne Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350343214

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Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Deanne Williams Pdf

Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories of the actress begin with the Restoration, this book demonstrates that the girl is actually a well-documented category of performer and a key participant in the drama of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It explores evidence of the girl actor in archival records of payment, eyewitness accounts, stage directions, paintings, and in the plays and masques that were explicitly composed for girls, and, in some cases, by them. Contradicting previous scholarly assumptions about the early modern stage as male-dominated, this evidence reveals girls' participation in medieval religious drama, Tudor civic pageants and royal entries, Elizabethan country house entertainments, and Stuart court and household masques. This book situates its historical study of the girl actor within the wider contexts of 'girl culture', including girls as singers, translators and authors. By examining the impact of the girl actor on constructions of girlhood in the work of Shakespeare – whose girl characters register and evoke the power of the performing girl – Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance argues that girls' dramatic, musical and literary performances actively shaped medieval and early modern culture. It shows how the active presence and participation of girls shaped medieval and Renaissance culture, and it reveals how some of its best-known literary and dramatic texts address, represent, and reflect upon girl children, not as an imagined ideal, but as a lived reality.

Author : Linda E. Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136522031

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Women in Medieval Western European Culture by Linda E. Mitchell Pdf

This is the book that teachers of courses on women in the Middle Ages have been wanting to write-or see written-for years. Essays written by specialists in their respective fields cover a range of topics unmatched in depth and breadth by any other introductory text. Depictions of women in literature and art, women in the medieval urban landscape, an the issue of women's relation to definitions of deviance and otherness all receive particular attention. Geographical regions such as the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Near East are fully incorporated into the text, expanding the horizons of medieval studies. The collection is organized thematically and includes all the tools needed to contextualize women in medieval society and culture.

Author : Kim M. Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350995420

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A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages by Kim M. Phillips Pdf

The medieval era has been described as 'the Age of Chivalry' and 'the Age of Faith' but also as 'the Dark Ages'. Medieval women have often been viewed as subject to a punishing misogyny which limited their legal rights and economic activities, but some scholars have claimed they enjoyed a 'rough and ready equality' with men. The contrasting figures of Eve and the Virgin Mary loom over historians' interpretations of the period 1000-1500. Yet a wealth of recent historiography goes behind these conventional motifs, showing how medieval women's lives were shaped by status, age, life-stage, geography and religion as well as by gender. A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages presents essays on medieval women's life cycle, bodies and sexuality, religion and popular beliefs, medicine and disease, public and private realms, education and work, power, and artistic representation to illustrate the diversity of medieval women's lives and constructions of femininity.

Author : Carole Levin,Jeanie Watson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : European literature
ISBN : 0814318738

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Ambiguous Realities by Carole Levin,Jeanie Watson Pdf

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.

Author : Barbara H. Gold,Barbara K. Gold,Paul Allen Miller,Charles Platter
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791432467

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Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts by Barbara H. Gold,Barbara K. Gold,Paul Allen Miller,Charles Platter Pdf

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.

Author : Kay Eastwood
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778713466

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Women and Girls in the Middle Ages by Kay Eastwood Pdf

Women and Girls in the Middle Ages shows the roles and duties of women and girls of the nobility and peasantry, and the choices they had. Special emphasis on medieval dress and beauty, women of power, and women of other lands during the same period in history.

Author : Alcuin Blamires
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198186304

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The Case for Women in Medieval Culture by Alcuin Blamires Pdf

Alcuin Blamires examines the relatively unstudied field of profeminine traditions extending back from the Middle Ages to the 4th century. Her sources include Chaucer, Christine de Pizan and Abelard.

Author : Georges Duby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0674403681

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A History of Women in the West by Georges Duby Pdf

Discusses the legal, social, and religious position of women in the Greco-Roman world, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, and modern era.

Author : Margaret L. King
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226436166

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Women of the Renaissance by Margaret L. King Pdf

In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes a large body of literature on the condition of western European women in the Renaissance centuries (1350-1650), crafting a much-needed and unified overview of women's experience in Renaissance society. Utilizing the perspectives of social, church, and intellectual history, King looks at women of all classes, in both usual and unusual settings. She first describes the familial roles filled by most women of the day—as mothers, daughters, wives, widows, and workers. She turns then to that significant fraction of women in, and acted upon, by the church: nuns, uncloistered holy women, saints, heretics, reformers,and witches, devoting special attention to the social and economic independence monastic life afforded them. The lives of exceptional women, those warriors, queens, patronesses, scholars, and visionaries who found some other place in society for their energies and strivings, are explored, with consideration given to the works and writings of those first protesting female subordination: the French Christine de Pizan, the Italian Modesta da Pozzo, the English Mary Astell. Of interest to students of European history and women's studies, King's volume will also appeal to general readers seeking an informative, engaging entrance into the Renaissance period.

Author : Katharina M. Wilson,Nadia Margolis
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060602383

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Women in the Middle Ages: A-J by Katharina M. Wilson,Nadia Margolis Pdf

The encyclopedia covers the myriad, experiences, and contributions of women in de medieval world.

Author : Jennifer Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317245124

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Women in Medieval Europe 1200-1500 by Jennifer Ward Pdf

Women in Medieval Europe explores the key areas of female experience in the later medieval period, from peasant women to Queens. It considers the women of the later Middle Ages in the context of their social relationships during a time of changing opportunities and activities, so that by 1500 the world of work was becoming increasingly restricted to women. The chapters are arranged thematically to show the varied roles and lives of women in and out of the home, covering topics such as marriage, religion, family and work. For the second edition a new chapter draws together recent work on Jewish and Muslim women, as well as those from other ethnic groups, showing the wide ranging experiences of women from different backgrounds. Particular attention is paid to women at work in the towns, and specifically urban topics such as trade, crafts, healthcare and prostitution. The latest research on women, gender and masculinity has also been incorporated, along with updated further reading recommendations. This fully revised new edition is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the topic, perfect for all those studying women in Europe in the later Middle Ages.

Author : Douglas Radcliff-Umstead
Publisher : [Pittsburgh] : Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Institute for the Human Sciences
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004860271

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The Roles and Images of Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Douglas Radcliff-Umstead Pdf

Author : Christine Meek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Renaissance
ISBN : UCSC:32106016212828

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Women in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe by Christine Meek Pdf