Women of the Medieval World

Häftad, Engelska, 1987

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1987-05-29
Mått:154 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:624 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:392
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9780631154921

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Julius Kirshner and Suzanne Wemple are the authors of Women of the Medieval World, published by Wiley.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface viiJulius Kirshner and Suzanne F. WempleAbbreviations viiiJohn Hine Mundy: An Appreciation 1Eugene Rice1 Teste David cum Sibylla: The Significance of the Sibylline Tradition in the Middle Ages 7Bernard McGinn2 A Legacy of Miracles: Hagiography and Nunneries in Merovingian Gaul 36Jo Ann McNamara3 Bishops as Marital Advisors in the Ninth Century 54Jane Bishop4 S. Salvatore/S. Giulia: A Case Study in the Endowment and Patronage of a Major Female Monastery in Northern Italy 85Suzanne F. Wemple5 Stephan Langton’s Ermo de Virginibus 103Phyllis B. Roberts6 Ancilla Dei: The Servant as Saint in the Late Middle Ages 119Michael Goodigh7 Prostitution and Repentance in Late Medieval Perpignan 137Leah Lydia Otis8 Female Imagery: A Clue to the Role of Joachim’s Order of Fiore 161Stephen Wessley9 Queen Sancia of Naples (1286-1345) and the Spiritual Franciscans 179Ronald G. Musto10 ‘Of the Gift of her Husband’: English Dower and its Consequences in the year 1200 215Janet Senderowitz Loengard11 Wives’ Claims against Insolvent Husbands in Late Medieval Italy 256Julius Kirshner12 On the Status of Women in Medieval Sardinia 204John Day13 Anthonius Guainerius and Medieval Gynocology 317Helen Rodnite Lemay14 The Problem of Feminism in the Fifteenth Century 337Beatrice GottliebSelect Bibliography of the Writings of John H. Mundy 365List of Contributors 367Index 371