Gendering the Master Narrative : : Women and Power in the Middle Ages / / ed. by Mary C. Erler, Maryanne Kowaleski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Elliott, Dyan,; Erler, Mary C.,; French, Katherine L.,; Hurlburt, Holly S.,; Jones, Sarah Rees,; Kowaleski, Maryanne,; Larson, Wendy R.,; McNamara, JoAnn,; Newman, Barbara,; Riddy, Felicity,; Sheingorn, Pamela,; Watson, Nicholas,; Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn,
• HerausgeberIn: Erler, Mary C.,; Kowaleski, Maryanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 3 tables, 2 maps, 17 halftones

Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing how practices and institutions that ostensibly enabled women in the Middle Ages could sometimes erode their authority as well.This book provides a much-needed theoretical and historical reassessment of medieval women's power. It updates the conclusions from the editors' essential volume on that topic, Women and Power in the Middle Ages, which was published in 1988 and altered the prevailing view of female subservience by correcting the nearly ubiquitous equation of "power" with "public authority." Most scholars now accept a broader definition of power based on the interactions between men and women.In their Introduction, Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski survey the directions in which the study of medieval women's agency has developed in the past fifteen years. Like its predecessor, this volume is richly interdisciplinary. It contains essays by highly regarded scholars of history, literature, and art history, and features seventeen black-and-white illustrations and two maps.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction. A New Economy of Power Relations: Female Agency in the Middle Ages -- CHAPTER ONE. Women and Power through the Family Revisited -- CHAPTER TWO. Women and Confession: From Empowerment to Pathology -- CHAPTER THREE. "With the Heat of the Hungry Heart": Empowerment and Ancrene Wisse -- CHAPTER FOUR. Powers of Record, Powers of Example: Hagiography and Women's History -- CHAPTER FIVE. Who Is the Master of This Narrative? Maternal Patronage of the Cult of St. Margaret -- CHAPTER SIX. "The Wise Mother": The Image of St. Anne Teaching the Virgin Mary -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Did Goddesses Empower Women? The Case of Dame Nature -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Women in the Late Medieval English Parish -- CHAPTER NINE. Public Exposure? Consorts and Ritual in Late Medieval Europe: The Example of the Entrance of the Dogaresse of Venice -- CHAPTER TEN. Women's Influence on the Design of Urban Homes -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Looking Closely: Authority and Intimacy in the Late Medieval Urban Home -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX