Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
286
Utgivningsdatum
2004-07-01
Förlag
D.S. Brewer
Medarbetare
Herbert McAvoy, Liz
Illustrationer
No
Volymtitel
5
Dimensioner
236 x 165 x 18 mm
Vikt
454 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
52:B&W 6.14 x 9.21in or 234 x 156mm (Royal 8vo) Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam
ISSN
1465-5683
ISBN
9781843840084

Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe

av Liz Herbert Mcavoy
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2004-07-01
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An examination of ways in which the writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe were affected by traditional and contemporary attitudes towards women. The writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe show an awareness of traditional and contemporary attitudes towards women, in particular medieval attitudes towards the female body. This study examines the extent to which they make use of such attitudes in their writing, and investigates the importance of the female body as a means of explaining their mystical experiences and the insight gained from them; in both writers, the female body is central to their writing, leading to a feminised language through which they achieve authority and create a space in which they can be heard, particularly in the context of their religious and mystical experiences. The three archetypal representations of woman in the middle ages, as mother, as whore and as "wise woman", are all clearly present in the writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe; in examining the ways in which both writers make use of these female categories, McAvoy establishes the extent of their success in resolving the tension between society's expectations of them and their own lived experiences as women and writers. LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY is Senior Lecturer in Gender in English and Medieval Literature, College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University
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A provocative and often insightful re-reading of the complex relationships between the female voice, body, and text in late medieval religious writing. It makes a useful contribution to recent feminist efforts to recover the marginalized voices of women in the Middle Ages. * MEDIEVAL REVIEW * Recommend[ed]...to academics researching the medieval mystical tradition from a literary perspective. * REVIEWS IN RELIGION AND THEOLOGY *

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LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol.

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