Women Writers Of The Middle Ages A Critical Study Of Texts From Perpetua 203 To Marguerite Porete 1310

Author : Peter Dronke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521275733

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Women Writers of the Middle Ages by Peter Dronke Pdf

This book gives a detailed picture of the contributions made by women writers to Western literature from the third century to the thirteenth. Many of the texts Peter Dronke presents and interprets have hitherto remained unknown, or virtually inaccessible; some have never been edited or translated before. The emphasis throughout is on personal testimonies, and on texts that have notable literary or intellectual interest. Thus the book affords many new insights into medieval literature, not only into the writings of renowned women such as Hrotsvitha or Heloise, but also into those of a number of neglected writers who are exceptional in their gifts and individuality. Already highly influential, Women Writers of the Middle Ages continues to be essential reading for specialists and students alike in medieval literature, medieval intellectual history, and women's studies.

Author : Peter Dronke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1367345319

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Women Writers of the Middle Ages by Peter Dronke Pdf

Author : Peter Dronke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN : OCLC:1200031907

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Women Writers of the Middle Ages by Peter Dronke Pdf

Author : Peter Dronke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:848861544

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Women writers of the Middle Ages : a critical study of texts from Perpetua †203 to Marguerite Porete †1310 by Peter Dronke Pdf

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110897777

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The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures by Albrecht Classen Pdf

The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and male - are heard. The study opens with an enquiry into violence against women, including in texts by male writers (Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach) which indeed describe instances of violence, but adopt an extremely critical stance towards them. It then proceeds to show how women were able to develop an independent identity in various genres and could present themselves as authorities in the public eye. Mystic texts by Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France and Margery Kempe, the medieval conduct poem known as Die Winsbeckin, the Devout Books of Sisters composed in convents in South-West Germany, but also quasi-historical documents such as the memoirs of Helene Kottaner or Anna Weckerin's cookery book, demonstrate that far more women were in the public gaze than had hitherto been assumed and that they possessed the self-confidence to establish their positions with their intellectual and their literary achievements.

Author : Marguerite Porete
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0809134276

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The Mirror of Simple Souls by Marguerite Porete Pdf

We know very little about Marguerite Porete, only that she was a beguine from Hainaut who was burned at the stake as a relapsed heretic in 1310. She might have been a solitary itinerant beguine who expounded her teachings to interested listeners.

Author : Franca Ela Consolino,Judith Herrin
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884143819

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The Early Middle Ages by Franca Ela Consolino,Judith Herrin Pdf

Examine the creative, profound dialogue between medieval women and biblical traditions The latest volume in the Bible and Women series examines the relationship between women and the Bible’s reception during the early Middle Ages (500–1100 CE) in both the Greek East and the Latin West. Essays focus on interactions between women and the Bible through biblical precepts on women and for women, biblical women as the subjects of action or objects of discussion, and writings by women that refer to the Bible as a moral authority. The women discussed in the volume range from the well-known—including the nuns Kassia in Byzantium and Hrosvita in the West; the aristocrat Dhuoda, author of a moral guide for her son; Gisela, the sister of Charlemagne and abbess of Chelles; and her niece Rotrude—to those who remain anonymous. Contributions also explore how the Old and New Testaments exercised influence on emerging Islam. Features: Analysis of images of the Virgin Mary as a means of tracing the spread of her cult and feast days from East to West Exploration of the significance of classical culture for medieval women who composed poems for a Christian audience Evaluation of art as a means of establishing devotional relationships not necessarily mediated by the voices of preachers or the reading of texts .

Author : Janet Wootton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725231375

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This Is Our Song by Janet Wootton Pdf

Women have made an amazing, creative, and prolific contribution to hymnody through the centuries of Christian worship. Excluded from liturgical commissions and denied other opportunities for involvement in the worship of the churches, women were able to express and influence spirituality in the writing of hymns. This influence spreads across the whole range of hymn-writing, including writing for children, which was at one time seen as women's natural place, but also the introduction of new voices through translations; engagement in social campaigns such as temperance and the abolition of slavery; mission and evangelism; and the general development of worshipping life. However, with the exception of the nineteenth century, the voices of women have been largely silenced or marginalized. The "Hymn Explosion" of the 1960s onward almost completely ignored women's writing, and there has only recently been something of a recovery. There is much more to Our Song than people think! This book opens up women's writing from the beginnings of Christianity, through the Middle Ages, the development of printing and the rise of popular hymnody to the present day. Living hymn-writers add their voices in a series of biographical "stories," which complete the overarching story of Our Song.

Author : Norman R. Shapiro
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801888045

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French Women Poets of Nine Centuries by Norman R. Shapiro Pdf

"Original texts and translations are presented on facing pages, allowing readers to appreciate the vigor and variety of the French and the fidelity of the English versions. Divided into three chronological sections spanning the Middle Ages through the sixteenth century, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the volume includes introductory essays by noted scholars of each era's poetry along with biographical sketches and bibliographical references for each poet."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Joanne Maguire Robinson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791490693

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Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls by Joanne Maguire Robinson Pdf

This first book-length study of Marguerite Porete's important mystical text, The Mirror of Simple Souls, examines Porete's esoteric and optimistic doctrine of annihilation—the complete transformative union of the soul into God—in its philosophical and historical contexts. Porete was burned at the stake as a relapsed heretic in 1310. Her theological treatise survived the flames, but it circulated anonymously or under male pseudonyms until 1946, and her message endures as testament to a distinctive form of medieval spirituality. Robinson begins by focusing on traditional speculations regarding the origin, nature, limitations, and destiny of humankind. She then examines Porete's work in its more immediate historical and literary contexts, focusing on the ways in which Porete conceptualizes and expresses her radical doctrine of annihilation through contemporary metaphors of lineage and nobility.

Author : Jan N. Bremmer,Marco Formisano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191617836

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Perpetua's Passions by Jan N. Bremmer,Marco Formisano Pdf

Perpetua's Passions is a collection of studies about Perpetua, a young female Christian martyr who was executed in 203 AD. Like her spiritual guide, Saturus, Perpetua left a diary, and a few years after their deaths a fellow Christian collected these writings and supplied them with an introduction and epilogue: the so-called Passion of Perpetua. The result is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic works of antiquity, which the present volume examines from a wide range of perspectives: literary, narratological, historical, religious, psychological, and philosophical viewpoints follow upon a newly edited text and English translation (by Joseph Farrell and Craig Williams). This innovative treatment by a number of distinguished scholars not only complements its unique subject, but constitutes a kind of laboratory of new approaches to ancient texts.

Author : Wendy Farley
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664259860

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The Thirst of God by Wendy Farley Pdf

"There is a rich tradition of wonderful women and other contemplatives who are great resources for thinking differently about Christianity. They emphasized divine love, human compassion, and the radical possibilities of contemplative practices. They were not afraid to criticize the church and indeed thought of their challenge as crucial to their faith. We do not have to lose faith with the beautiful wisdom of this story of intimate and compassionate love, dwelling among us and within us, if we do not want to." —from the acknowledgments and note to readers To those seeking a more open, progressive approach to Christian faith, the Christian past can sometimes seem like a desert, an empty space devoid of encouragement or example. Yet in the latter years of the Middle Ages a quiet flowering of a more accessible, positive approach to Christian belief took place among a group of female mystics, those who emphasized an immediate, nonhierarchical experience of the divine. In this enlightening volume, Wendy Farley eloquently brings the work of three female mystics—Marguerite Porete, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Julian of Norwich—into creative conversation with contemporary Christian life and thought. From alternatives to the standard, violent understandings of the atonement, to new forms of contemplation and prayer, these figures offer us relevant insights through a theology centered on God's love and compassion. Farley demonstrates how these women can help to refresh and expand our awareness of the depth of divine love that encompasses all creation and dwells in the cavern of every human heart.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843842965

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Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry by Anonim Pdf

Although there were a number of women writers of the late Middle Ages, it was not thought that women composed lyric poetry. Classen's investigation, however, proves this to be a misconception, and presents a selection of secular love songs and religious hymns composed by 15th- and 16th-century German women poets.

Author : Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Women
ISBN : 9780252072499

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Women's History in Global Perspective by Bonnie G. Smith Pdf

The American Historical Association's Committee on Women Historians commissioned some of the pioneering figures in women's history to prepare essays in their respective areas of expertise. This volume, the second in a series of three, collects their efforts. As a counterpoint to the broad themes discussed in the first volume, Volume 2 is concerned with issues that have shaped the history of women in particular places and during particular eras. It examines women in ancient civilizations; including women in China, Japan, and Korea; women and gender in South and South East Asia; Medieval women; women and gender in Colonial Latin America; and the history of women in the US to 1865. Authors included are Sarah Hughes and Brady Hughes, Susan Mann, Barbara N. Ramusack, Judith M. Bennett, Ann Twinam, and Kathleen Brown. Incorporating essays from top scholars ranging over an abundance of regions, dates, and methodologies, the three volumes of Women's History in Global Perspective constitute an invaluable resource for anyone interested in a comprehensive overview on the latest in feminist scholarship.

Author : Laurie Finke
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501726255

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Feminist Theory, Women's Writing by Laurie Finke Pdf

In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their historical context and the larger framework of current theory concerning language, representation, subjectivity, and value.