Women intellectuals and leaders in the middle ages
Wide-ranging examination of women's achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambrdige : D. S. Brewer,
2020
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| Schlagworte: | Women Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 420 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Wide-ranging examination of women's achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture. Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Taking Early Women Intellectuals and Leaders Seriously -- Part I. Scholarship, Law, and Poetry: Jewish and Muslim Women -- Preface to Part I: Authorship and Intellectual Life: Jewish and Muslim Women -- 1 Gender, Scholarship, and the Construction of Authority in the Pre-Modern Muslim World -- 2 The Historiography of Absence: Preliminary Steps towards a New History of Andalusi Women Poets -- 3 Medieval Anglo-Jewish Women at Court -- Part II. Authorship, Intellectual Life, and the Professional Writer -- Preface to Part II: Intellectuals, Leaders, Doctores -- 4 Agnes of Harcourt as Intellectual: New Evidence for the Composition and Circulation of the Vie d'Isabelle de France -- 5 Catherine of Siena, Auctor -- 6 Christine de Pizan on the Jews, in Three Texts: The Heures de contemplation sur la Passion de Nostre Seigneur Jhesucrist, the Fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V, and the Mutacion de Fortune -- 7 Walking in Grandmothers' Footsteps: Mary Ward and the Medieval Spiritual and Intellectual Heritage -- Part III. Recovering Lost Women's Authorship -- Preface to Part III: Recovering Lost Women's Authorship: New Solutions to Old Problems -- 8 A Woman Author? The Middle Dutch Dialogue between a "Good-willed Layperson" and a "Master Eckhart" -- 9 Recovery and Loss: Women's Writing around Marie de France Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, with an Appendix by Ian Short -- 10 The Visions, Experiments, and Operations of Bridget of Autruy (fl. 1305-15) -- Part IV. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Gender, Patronage, and Power -- Preface to Part IV: Methodological Innovations for the Study of Women's Authorship and Agency -- 11 Written with her Own Hand: Perpetua's Representation of Non-Binary Gender in Old English Hagiography. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 420 Seiten) Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781787449114 1787449114 1843845555 9781843845553 |