Womens Books Of Hours In Medieval England
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Author | : Kathryn Ann Smith |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780802086914 |
Examines the De Lisle hours of Margaret de Beauchamp, the De Bois hours (Dubois hours) of Hawisia de Bois, and the Neville of Hornby hours of Isabel de Byron.
Author | : Charity Scott-Stokes |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843843005 |
English translation of a variety of texts from women's books of hours, with introduction, notes, and an interpretive essay. The book of hours is said to have been the most popular book owned by the laity in the later Middle Ages. This volume brings together a selection of texts taken from books of hours known to have been owned by women. While some will be familiar from bibles or prayer-books, others have to be sought in specialist publications, often embedded in other material, and a few have not until now been available at all in modern editions or translations. The texts arecomplemented by an introduction setting the book of hours in its context, an interpretive essay, glossary and annotated bibliography.
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 | : Deirdre Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval |
ISBN | : 9780712358651 |
Our understanding of the lives and roles of medieval women has changed dramatically in recent years. Far from being background characters of the middle ages, women often wielded an influence beyond their expected station. Many women fortunate enough to receive an education became patrons of literature, particularly secular tales of adventure and romance. Some bold pioneers became writers themselves. Others commissioned, or had dedicated to them, the earliest historical chronicles, bestiaries, and treatises on healthcare and military prowess. This book celebrates the importance that women across Europe assigned to reading and literature, and the many ways women advanced medieval culture.
Author | : British Library |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802080691 |
Concentrating on the pictorial evidence, these papers raise many complex and varied themes related to women's creation, use and patronage of books, and the representation of women in them.
Author | : Mary Erler |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820323810 |
Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority--violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of civic life through the exercise of law and force. The wives and consorts of these powerful men have generally been viewed as decorative attendants, while common women were presumed to have had no power or consequence. Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped such portrayals, Women and Power in the Middle Ages reveals the varied manifestations of female power in the medieval household and community--from the cultural power wielded by the wives of Venetian patriarchs to the economic power of English peasant women and the religious power of female saints. Among the specific topics addresses are Griselda's manipulation of silence as power in Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale"; the extensive networks of influence devised by Lady Honor Lisle; and the role of medieval women book owners as arbiters of lay piety and ambassadors of culture. In every case, the essays seek to transcend simple polarities of public and private, male and female, in order to provide a more realistic analysis of the workings of power in feudal society.
Author | : Eamon Duffy |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300117141 |
PT 3: Catholic books in a Protestant world.
Author | : Margaret Schaus |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 986 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415969441 |
Author | : Elizabeth Buchan |
Publisher | : Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2021-06-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1786495341 |
A beautifully atmospheric new tale from the prize-winning, bestselling novelist Elizabeth Buchan. In the Eternal City, no secret stays hidden forever... Lottie Archer arrives in Rome excited newly married and ready for change as she takes up a job as an archivist. When she discovers a valuable fifteenth-century painting, she is drawn to find out more about the woman who left it behind, Nina Lawrence. Nina seems to have led a rewarding and useful life, restoring Italian gardens to their full glory following the destruction of World War Two. So why did no one attend her funeral in 1978? In exploring Nina's past, Lottie unravels a tragic love story beset by the political turmoil of post-war Italy. And as she edges closer to understanding Nina, and the city draws her deeper into its life, she is brought up against a past which will come to shape her own future. Praise for Elizabeth Buchan: 'It's a gem of a book... Beautiful, elegant.' Marian Keyes 'Intricately plotted and beautifully written.' Katie Fforde 'An amazing, emotive, heartbreaking but also ultimately uplifting novel. I really loved it.' Laura Barnett
Author | : Vera Petch Morton |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843842955 |
Collection of letters and texts offering guidance for nuns, and including selections from Abelard's letters to Heloise. These translated letters and texts composed for younger and older women in twelfth-century convents illuminate the powerful medieval ideals of virginity and chastity. Abelard's history of women's roles in the church and his letteron women's education, both written for Heloise in her work as abbess, are seen here alongside previously untranslated letters and texts for abbesses and nuns in England and France. An interpretive essay explores the practical and spiritual engagement of women's convents with medieval commemorative and memorial practices, showing that the professional concern of women religious with death goes far beyond the stereotype of nuns as dead to the world, or enclosed in living death. VERA MORTON gained an MA in Medieval Studies at the University of Liverpool in 1994. JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE is Professor of English at Fordham University, NY.