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Female Devotion and Textile Imagery in Medieval English Literature
Av Anna McKay
Inbunden, 2024
1498 kr
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Uncovers the female voices, lived experiences, and spiritual insights encoded by the imagery of textiles in the Middle Ages.For millennia, women have spoken and read through cloth. The literature and art of the Middle Ages are replete with images of women working cloth, wielding spindles, distaffs, …
Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England
Men, Women, and Testimony in the Church Courts, c.1200-1500
Av Bronach Kane
Inbunden, 2019
1809 kr
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An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite.WINNER of the Women's History Network 2020 Book PrizeChurch court records offer the most detailed records of everyday life in medieval England for people below the level of the elite. …
Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages
Av Pat H Cullum, Katherine J Lewis
Häftad, 2019
344 kr
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Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity.The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses the rabbis of the Babylonian and …
Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200
Inbunden, 2020
1287 kr
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SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion. A ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest.Medieval manors have long been the subject of academic study, though the ways in which these houses reflected and …
Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England
Gender, Law and Political Culture
Inbunden, 2020
1342 kr
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Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.Conflicts over treason tormented English political society in the later Middle Ages. As legal and political historians have shown, treason was always a constitutional matter as well …
Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England
Men, Women, and Testimony in the Church Courts, c.1200-1500
Av Bronach Kane
Häftad, 2021
392 kr
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An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite.WINNER of the Women's History Network 2020 Book PrizeChurch court records offer the most detailed records of everyday life in medieval England for people below the level of the elite. …
Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640
Negotiating the Steps of Faith
Inbunden, 2022
1303 kr
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A lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception of dancers changed from saints dancing after Christ into cows dancing after the devil.The devil's cows, impudent camels, or damsels animated by the devil: late medieval and early modern authors used …
Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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A close examination of religious texts illuminates the way in which parish priests dealt with their female parishioners in the Middle Ages.The question of how priests were taught to think about and care for female parishioners is the topic of this book. As neither misogynist villains nor saintly …
Financing Queenship in Late Fifteenth Century England
Inbunden, 2025
1342 kr
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"Seah's important book richly documents and deftly analyzes the complex household economies of three fifteenth-century queens consort of England who lived during a period of political and economic upheaval. This book, based on impressive meticulous research, is more than just a much-needed …
Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c. 1031-1083
Embodying Conquest
Inbunden, 2025
1342 kr
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The first full-scale scholarly treatment of Mathilda of Flanders (d. 1083), duchess of Normandy and post-Conquest queen of England.In Norman England, Mathilda's unique practice of queenship was robustly public. It was characterized by an unapologetic embrace of both new and traditional …
Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200
Häftad, 2024
311 kr
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SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion. A ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest.Medieval manors have long been the subject of academic study, though the ways in which these houses reflected and …
Premodern Masculinities in Transition
Av Konrad Eisenbichler, Jacqueline Murray
Inbunden, 2024
1424 kr
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Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period of huge change. Premodern masculinity was multivalent and dynamic, a series of intersecting, conflicting, and mutating identities that nevertheless were distinct and recognizable to people and their …
Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640
Negotiating the Steps of Faith
Häftad, 2025
367 kr
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A lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception of dancers changed from saints dancing after Christ into cows dancing after the devil.The devil's cows, impudent camels, or damsels animated by the devil: late medieval and early modern authors used …
Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c. 1031-1083
Embodying Conquest
Häftad, 2026
311 kr
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The first full-scale scholarly treatment of Mathilda of Flanders (d. 1083), duchess of Normandy and post-Conquest queen of England.In Norman England, Mathilda's unique practice of queenship was robustly public. It was characterized by an unapologetic embrace of both new and traditional …
Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe
Av Cordelia Beattie, Matthew Frank Stevens
Inbunden, 2013
1342 kr
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Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.There has been a tendency in scholarship on premodern women and the law to see married women as hidden from view, obscured by their husbands in legal …
Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages
Av Pat H Cullum, Katherine J Lewis
Inbunden, 2013
1275 kr
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Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity.The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses the rabbis of the Babylonian and …
Gender and Medieval Drama
Inbunden, 2006
986 kr
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An investigation of the public image of women as presented in contemporary drama.The focus of this study is upon the Corpus Christi plays, supplemented by other performance practices such as festive and social entertainments, civic parades, funeral processions and public punishments. The main …
Monsters, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature
Inbunden, 2010
1424 kr
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A gendered reading of monster and the monstrous body in medieval literature.Monsters abound in Old and Middle English literature, from Grendel and his mother in Beowulf to those found in medieval romances such as Sir Gowther. Through a close examination of the way in which their bodies are sexed …
Medieval Anchoritisms
Gender, Space and the Solitary Life
Inbunden, 2011
1238 kr
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An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages.Originating in the deserts of northern Africa in the early years of Christianity, anchoritism, or the enclosed solitary life, gradually metamorphosed into a permanent characteristic of European …
Middle-Aged Women in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2011
1424 kr
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New research into medieval women from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period demonstrates their energy, defiance and wit.The phenomenon of medieval women's middle age is a stage in the lifecycle that has been frequently overlooked in preference for the examination of female youth and old age. …
Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture
Inbunden, 2015
1303 kr
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An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender.Current preoccupations with the body have led to a growing interest in the intersections between religion, literature and the history of medicine, …
Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture
Av Elizabeth Cox, Liz Herbert McAvoy m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1424 kr
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A consideration of the ways in which the past was framed and remembered in the pre-modern world.The training and use of memory was crucial in medieval culture, given the limited literacy at the time, but to date, very little thought has been given to the complex and disparate ways in which the …
Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature, 1000-1400
Inbunden, 2017
1424 kr
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An investigation of the motif of the unspeakable as manifested in a wide range of medieval texts, from the Exeter Book to Chaucer.Amid saints and sinners, open secrets and queer codes, the mechanisms of confession and the infliction of torture, what is unspeakable in the Middle Ages - and who …
Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
Inbunden, 2020
1770 kr
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An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance.In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not desire men invite awkward silences. Men's dissident sexual practices have been discussed energetically by writers of law and religion, medicine and morality; reams of …
Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature
Authority, Exemplarity and Femininity
Inbunden, 2021
1498 kr
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First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature.During the Middle Ages, the lives of saints such as Mary Magdalen and Mary of Egypt - "holy harlots", women who repented of an early life of licentiousness to become blessed - were …
Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts
Inbunden, 2021
849 kr
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An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.From the tenth to the twelfth centuries in England and Scotland we have scant evidence of women's writing. How, then, can we access these women's experiences?This book argues that by analysing …
Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages
Speaking Internationally
Av Kathryn, Loveridge, Kathryn Loveridge m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1788 kr
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Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and period boundaries.Since the closing decades of the twentieth century, medieval women's writing has been the subject of energetic conversation and debate. …
Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages
Giving Voice to Silence. Essays in Honour of Catherine Innes-Parker
Av Cate Gunn, Cate Gunn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1498 kr
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Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker.Silence was a much-lauded concept in the Middle Ages, particularly in the context of religious literature directed at women. Based on the Pauline …
Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
Häftad, 2023
347 kr
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An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance.In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not desire men invite awkward silences. Men's dissident sexual practices have been discussed energetically by writers of law and religion, medicine and morality; reams of …
