Gendering the Master Narrative : : Women and Power in the Middle Ages /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 3 tables, 2 maps, 17 halftones
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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

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