The Worlds Of Medieval Women

Author : Julius Kirshner,Suzanne Wemple
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0631154922

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Women of the Medieval World by Julius Kirshner,Suzanne Wemple Pdf

This fascinating volume breaks new ground in examining the status and lives of women in Europe during the Middle Ages, offering revealing new insights into the role of women in a wide range of religious, sexual and domestic affairs. As this book amply demonstrates, women were central to the spiritual life of the medieval Church: Jo Ann McNamara writes on the legacy of miracles in the nunneries of Merovingian Gaul, Suzanne Wemple on one of the most important female monasteries in northern Italy, and Phyllis Roberts on the ideal of the virginal life. But the book is equally concerned with the family and relations between men and women. Leah Lydia Otis, for example, looks at the practice of prostitution in late medieval Perpignan; Helen Rodnite Lemay discusses medieval gynecology; and Julius Kirshner provides a revolutionary study of wives' claims against insolvent husbands, challenging the notion that the legal rights of women deteriorated in late medieval Italy.

Author : Constance H. Berman,Charles W. Connell,Judith Rice Rothschild
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001024629

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The Worlds of Medieval Women by Constance H. Berman,Charles W. Connell,Judith Rice Rothschild Pdf

Author : Eileen Power
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107650152

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Medieval Women by Eileen Power Pdf

An accessible and clear snapshot of the life and work of women in medieval times from the nunnery to the town to the castle.

Author : Christine Sciacca
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606065266

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Illuminating Women in the Medieval World by Christine Sciacca Pdf

When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In reality, however, medieval conceptions of womanhood were multifaceted, and women’s roles were varied and nuanced. Female stereotypes existed in the medieval world, but so too did women of power and influence. The pages of illuminated manuscripts reveal to us the many facets of medieval womanhood and slices of medieval life—from preoccupations with biblical heroines and saints to courtship, childbirth, and motherhood. While men dominated artistic production, this volume demonstrates the ways in which female artists, authors, and patrons were instrumental in the creation of illuminated manuscripts. Featuring over one hundred illuminations depicting medieval women from England to Ethiopia, this book provides a lively and accessible introduction to the lives of women in the medieval world.

Author : Janet Burton,Janet E. Burton,Karen Stöber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Monastic and religious life of women
ISBN : 2503553087

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Women in the Medieval Monastic World by Janet Burton,Janet E. Burton,Karen Stöber Pdf

There has long been a tendency among monastic historians to ignore or marginalize female participation in monastic life, but recent scholarship has begun to redress the balance, and the great contributions made by women to the religious life of the Middle Ages are now attracting increasing attention. This interdisciplinary volume draws together scholars from Spain, Italy, France, the Low Countries, Germany, Transylvania, Scandinavia, and the British Isles, and offers new insights into the history, art history, and material culture, and the religiosity and culture of medieval religious women. The different chapters within this book take a comparative approach to the emergence and spread of female monastic communities across different geographical, political, and economic settings, comparing and contrasting houses that ranged from rich, powerful royal abbeys to small, subsistence priories on the margins of society, and exploring the artistic achievements, the interaction with neighbours and secular and ecclesiastical authorities, and the spiritual lives that were led by their inhabitants. The contributors to this volume address issues as diverse as patronage and relationships with the outside world, organizational structures, the nature of Cistercian observance and identity among female houses, and the role of male authority, and in doing so, they seek to shed light on the divergences and commonalities upon which the female religious life was based.

Author : Jennifer Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317888598

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Women in Medieval Europe by Jennifer Ward Pdf

Women in Medieval Europe were expected to be submissive, but such a broad picture ignores great areas of female experience. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, women are found in the workplace as well as the home, and some women were numbered among the key rulers, saints and mystics of the medieval world. Opportunities and activities changed over time, and by 1500 the world of work was becoming increasingly restricted for women. Women of all social groups were primarily engaged with their families, looking after husband and children, and running the household. Patterns of work varied geographically. In the northern towns, women engaged in a wide range of crafts, with a small number becoming entrepreneurs. Many of the poor made a living as servants and labourers. Prostitution flourished in many medieval towns. Some women turned to the religious life, and here opportunities burgeoned in the thirteenth century. The Middle Ages are not remote from the twenty-first century; the lives of medieval women evoke a response today. The medieval mother faced similar problems to her modern counterpart. The sheer variety of women’s experience in the later Middle Ages is fully brought out in this book.

Author : Sarah Ifft Decker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000586404

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Jewish Women in the Medieval World by Sarah Ifft Decker Pdf

Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 to 1500 CE, a group often ignored in general surveys on both medieval Jewish life and medieval women. The volume blends current scholarship with evidence drawn from primary sources, originally written in languages including Hebrew, Latin, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic, to introduce both the state of scholarship on women and gender in medieval Jewish communities, and the ways in which Jewish women experienced family, love, sex, work, faith, and crisis in the medieval past. From the well-known Dolce of Worms to the less famed Bonadona, widow of Astrug Caravida of Girona, to the many nameless women referred to in medieval texts, Jewish Women tells the stories of individual women alongside discussions of wider trends in different parts of the medieval world. Even through texts written about women by men, the intelligence, courage, and perseverance of medieval Jewish women become clear to modern readers. With the inclusion of a Chronology, Who’s Who, Documents section, and Glossary, this study is an essential resource for students and other readers interested in both Jewish history and women’s history.

Author : Henrietta Leyser
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780226538

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Medieval Women by Henrietta Leyser Pdf

Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat. The intellectual and spiritual worlds of medieval women are also explored. MEDIEVAL WOMEN celebrates the diversity and vitality of English women's lives in the Middle Ages.

Author : Cordelia Beattie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 041573956X

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Women in the Medieval World by Cordelia Beattie Pdf

The study of medieval women has flourished over the last forty years or so, challenging the idea of a universality of experience among women. This new collection of major works from Routledge addresses the different ways in which medieval women have been studied by looking at religious and secular women, women according to their stage in the life cycle, and according to their social status. Important theoretical issues are also tackled, such as the applicability of terms such as misogyny, anti-feminism, and feminism, the cultural construction of the body, and the periodization of women's history.

Author : Susan Mosher Stuard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207675

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Women in Medieval Society by Susan Mosher Stuard Pdf

Early medieval women exercised public roles, rights, and responsibilities. Women contributed through their labor to the welfare of the community. Women played an important part in public affairs. They practiced birth control through abortion and infanticide. Women committed crimes and were indicted. They owned property and administered estates. The drive toward economic growth and expansion abroad rested on the capacity of women to staff and manage economic endeavors at home. In the later Middle Ages, the social position of women altered significantly, and the reasons why the role of women in society tended to become more restrictive are examined in these essays.

Author : Emilie Amt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134720606

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Women's Lives in Medieval Europe by Emilie Amt Pdf

Praise for the first edition: 'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its richness, and in its genuine clarity and simplicity will takes prominent place in our expanded, diversified medieval curriculum, a curriculum that takes class, gender, and ethnicity as central to an understanding of world cultural history.' - The Medieval Review Long considered to be a definitive and truly groundbreaking collection of sources, Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe uniquely presents the everyday lives and experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This indispensible text has now been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect new research, and includes previously unavailable source material. This new edition includes expanded sections on marriage and sexuality, and on peasant women and townswomen, as well as a new section on women and the law. There are brief introductions both to the period and to the individual documents, study questions to accompany each reading, a glossary of terms and a fully updated bibliography. Working within a multi-cultural framework, the book focuses not just on the Christian majority, but also present material about women in minority groups in Europe, such as Jews, Muslims, and those considered to be heretics. Incorporating both the laws, regulations and religious texts that shaped the way women lived their lives, and personal narratives by and about medieval women, the book is unique in examining women’s lives through the lens of daily activities, and in doing so as far as possible through the voices of women themselves.

Author : Jennifer Adams,Nancy Bradbury
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472130146

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Medieval Women and Their Objects by Jennifer Adams,Nancy Bradbury Pdf

The essays gathered in this volume present multifaceted considerations of the intersection of objects and gender within the cultural contexts of late medieval France and England. Some take a material view of objects, showing buildings, books, and pictures as sites of gender negotiations and resistance and as extensions of women's bodies. Other reconsider the concept of objectification in the lives of fictional and historical medieval women by looking closely at their relation to gendered material objects, taken literally as women's possessions and as figurative manifestations of their desires. Contents: Dedication to Carolyn P. Collette, American professor emerita of English language and literature and a specialist in medieval literature, as she retires from Mount Holyoke College. Part 1: Objects and gender in a material world: The "Thyng Wommen loven moost" : the wife of Bath's fabliau answer ['The wife of Bath's tale', 'Canterbury tales', Geoffrey Chaucer] ; Zenobia's objects ; The object of miraculous song in "The prioress's tale". Part 2: Buildings, books, and women's (self-)fashioning: A gift from the queen : the architecture of the Collège de Navarre in Paris [the first royal college in Paris] ; Anne of Bohemia and the objects of Ricardian kingship ; Royal biography as reliquary : Christine de Pizan's 'Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V' ; A gift, a mirror, a memorial : the psalter-hours of Mary de Bohun ; "Parchment and pure flesh" : Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of the twelfth Earl of Oxford, and her book. Part 3: Bodies, objects, and objects in the shape of bodies: Objects of the law : the cases of Dorigen and Virginia ; Galatea's pulse : objects, ethics, and Jean de Meun's conclusion ; Transgender and the chess queen in Chaucer's 'Book of the duchess' ; Statues, bodies, and souls : St. Cecilia and some medieval attitudes toward ancient Rome.

Author : Henrietta Leyser
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-17
Category : Women
ISBN : 1842126121

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Medieval Women by Henrietta Leyser Pdf

Medieval Women looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women.Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood for peasant, townswoman and aristocrat. The intellectual and spiritual worlds of medieval women are also explored.Based on an abundance of research from the last twenty-five years, Medieval Women celebrates the diversity and vitality of English women's lives in the Middle Ages. Medieval Women is the best history book I've read for years, full of stories and surprises and written with gentle elegance from enormous knowledge' Sue Gaisford, Independent

Author : Kay Eastwood
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Katharina M. Wilson,Nadia Margolis
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,9 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.