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Gender and the 'Natural' Environment in the Middle Ages

Av Patricia Skinner, Theresa L. Tyers

Del i serien Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages

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The later Middle Ages in Europe c.1150–c.1500 can be viewed as an extensive scientific laboratory, with scholars and other writers producing texts that sought to define and redefine the human body – in relation to its daily work and environment, and in relation to God. This volume draws on written and visual evidence from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, placing gender at the centre of its enquiries, addressing the relationship between the human and the ‘natural’ (including the non-human) at a time when new worlds, new texts and new religious experiences were reshaping the individual and collective relationship with the cosmos, and challenging as well as reinforcing established hierarchies.
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Theresa Tyers is Research Fellow at the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research, at Swansea University.Patricia Skinner was Professor in History at Swansea University.

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In the wake of numerous new studies engaged with the concept of nature, this volume offers a range of fascinating papers that examine how individual medieval writers or artists viewed themselves within their material environment. A typically medieval mindset among mystics promoted an allegorical concept of nature, and we read about medieval womens unique approaches to their natural and social environment. Their struggle, for instance, against mens tendency to relegate them into a gendered space presents a study of œnature leading to new insights into womens individuality, independence and female identity.

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