Addressing Women In Early Medieval Religious Texts
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Author | : Kathryn Maude |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : 1843845962 |
An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.
Author | : Kathryn Maude |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : |
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Chapter Two argues that Aelred's De institutione inclusarum offers his sister a Christian subjecthood based in virginity and treats her as a fellow spiritual director. Goscelin's Uber confortatorius, on the other hand, does not allow Eve a Christian subject position independent of his intrusive advice. Her Christian subjecthood is conditional on his involvement. In Chapter Three I show how the horizons of possibility for Matilda and Christina's Christian subjecthood exclude relationships with other women. Instead of a Christian subject position constructed with reference to her filial relationship with Margaret, Matilda is steered towards an image of Margaret as a queen who protected the rights of the Church. Similarly, Christina's Christian subjecthood is directed away from same-sex relationships and towards an appreciation of God filtered through her relationship with Abbot Geoffrey and St Albans. Conversely, Chapter Four explains how the saints' lives commissioned for the nuns of Wilton and Barking create a communal Christian subject position for the nuns based in their samesex intimacy with their patron saints, allowing them to bypass the authority of male bishops in their worship.
Author | : Hetta Elizabeth Howes |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Literature, Medieval |
ISBN | : 1843846128 |
A consideration of the metaphor of water in religious literature, especially in relation to women.
Author | : Julie Ann Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351913549 |
This book takes an innovative approach to the study of the penitentials and nunnery rules and the ways in which these texts impinged upon the lives of female audiences. The study emphasises the importance of the texts for the promotion of Christian values and of the expectations of churchmen in the construction of appropriate Christian behaviour for women in the early medieval West. These texts constitute the only written works which would have had direct influence upon the lives of lay and religious women. The work focuses upon the elements of the penitentials which provided female-specific expectations, and these fall largely into two categories of sexuality and pre-Christian practices. The nunnery rules seldom provided comprehensive sets of behavioural expectations. Rather, rules emphasised expectations relating to issues of enclosure, work and abstinence which came to be perceived as the defining characteristics of religious women.
Author | : Diane Watt |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2019-12-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474270646 |
Women's literary histories usually start in the later Middle Ages, but recent scholarship has shown that actually women were at the heart of the emergence of the English literary tradition. Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650–1100 focuses on the period before the so-called 'Barking Renaissance' of women's writing in the 12th century. By examining the surviving evidence of women's authorship, as well as the evidence of women's engagement with literary culture more widely, Diane Watt argues that early women's writing was often lost, suppressed, or deliberately destroyed. In particular she considers the different forms of male 'overwriting', to which she ascribes the multiple connotations of 'destruction', 'preservation', 'control' and 'suppression'. She uses the term to describe the complex relationship between male authors and their female subjects to capture the ways in which texts can attempt to control and circumscribe female autonomy. Written by one of the leading experts in medieval women's writing, Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650–1100 examines women's literary engagement in monasteries such as Ely, Whitby, Barking and Wilton Abbey, as well as letters and hagiographies from the 8th and 9th centuries. Diane Watt provides a much-needed look at women's writing in the early medieval period that is crucial to understanding women's literary history more broadly.
Author | : Julia Bolton Holloway |
Publisher | : Julia Bolton Holloway |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820415178 |
Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages is a volume of essays presenting the argument that with the coming of the universities women were excluded, in an apartheid of gender, from education and power. It discusses the resulting paradigm shift from Romanesque to Gothic, describing the images which women had of themselves and which the dominant male society had of them. We meet, in the pages of this book, medieval women in their roles as writers, pilgrims, wives, anchoresses and nuns, at court, on pilgrimage, in households and convents. The volume, as a «Distant Mirror» for ourselves today, seeks to present ways in which women then fulfilled the roles society expected of them and the ways in which they also subverted - through entering into textuality - the expectations of the dominating culture in order to quest identity and equality.
Author | : Susan Mosher Stuard |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 151280729X |
What was the status of women in the Middle Ages? How have women fared in the hands of historians? And, what is the current state of research about women in the Middle Ages? Susan Mosher Stuard addresses these questions in a collection of essays that delve in to the history and historiography of women in medieval England, France, Italy, and Germany. Contributors include Barbara Hanawalt, Diane Owen Hughes, Suzanne Wemple, Denise Kaiser, and Martha Howell. One of the most interesting observations made in Women in Medieval History and Historiography is the way in which the history of women in each country has followed a distinct course that is in rhythm with other concerns of national historical writing. Women in Medieval History and Historiography will interest historians, scholars of women's studies, and medievalists.
Author | : Laura Saetveit Miles |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843845342 |
An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.
Author | : Christiania Whitehead |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780802084033 |
This collection of commissioned essays explores women's vernacular theology through a wide range of medieval prose and verse texts, from saints' lives to visionary literature. Employing a historicist methodology, the essays are sited at the intersection of two discursive fields: female spiritual practice and female textual practice. The contributors are primarily interested in the relation of women to religious books, as writers, receivers, and as objects of representation. They focus on historical approaches to the question of women's spirituality, and generically unrestricted examinations of issues of female literacy, book ownership, and reading practice. The essays are grouped under four main themes: the influence of anchoritic spirituality upon later lay piety, Carthusian links with female spirituality, the representation of femininity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English religious poetry, and veneration, performance and delusion in the Book of Margery Kempe.
Author | : Rebecca L. R. Garber |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780415939539 |
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.