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Author : Joan M. Ferrante
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Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Woman as Image in Medieval Literature from the Twelfth Century to Dante written by Joan M. Ferrante and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415969441
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Women and Gender in Medieval Europe written by Margaret Schaus and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719046520
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (465 download)
Download or read book British Women's History written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of a series of bibliographical guides designed to meet the needs of undergraduates, postgraduates and their teachers in universities and colleges of further education. All volumes in the series share a number of common characteristics. They are selective, manageable in size, and include those books and articles which are considered most important and useful. All are editied by practising teachers of the subject in question and are based on their experience of the needs of students. The arrangement combines chronological with thematic divisions. Most of the items listed receive some descriptive comment.
Author : Barbara H. Gold
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791432464
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (324 download)
Download or read book Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts written by Barbara H. Gold and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-03-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century.
Author : Josie P. Campbell
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879723392
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Popular Culture in the Middle Ages written by Josie P. Campbell and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culture of the Middle Ages was as complex, if not as various, as our own, as the essays in this volume ably demonstrate. The essays cover a wide range of tipics, from church sculpture as "advertisement" to tricks and illusions as "homeeconomics."
Author : Penny Schine Gold
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226300887
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Lady and the Virgin written by Penny Schine Gold and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-06-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues that the complex interactions between men and women as expressed in both image and experience reflect a common pattern of ambivalence and contradiction. Thus, women are seen as both helpful and harmful, powerful and submissive, and the actuality of women's experience encompasses women in control and controlled, autonomous and dependent. Vividly recreating the rich texture of medieval life, Gold effectively and eloquently goes beyond a simple equation of social context and representation. In the process. she challenges equally simple judgments of historical periods as being either "good" or "bad" for women. "[The Lady and the Virgin] presents its findings in a form that should attract students as well as their instructors. The careful and controlled use of so many different kinds of sources . . . offers us a valuable medieval case study in the inner-relationship between the segments of society and its ethos or value system."—Joel T. Rosenthal, The History Teacher "Something of a tour de force in an interdisciplinary approach to history."—Jo Ann McNamara, Speculum "[A] well-written, extremely well-researched book. . . . The Lady and the Virgin is useful, readable, and well informed."—R. Howard Bloch, Modern Philology
Author : D. H. Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521513359
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Women and Marriage in German Medieval Romance written by D. H. Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D. H. Green shows how German romances found ways to debate and challenge the conventional antifeminism of the medieval period.
Author : Marcelle Thiebaux
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429618980
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Writings of Medieval Women written by Marcelle Thiebaux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1994: The period surveyed in this anthology extends from the eve of Christianity's triumph, in the third century, to the new age of expansion in the fifteenth century, an age marked by the advent of printing pressed, the European discovery of the Caribbean islands, which Columbus called the Indies, the relentless stripping of medieval altars by Church reformists, and perhaps a diminution of female autonomy.
Author : Diana Glenn
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1906510237
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Dante's Reforming Mission and Women in the Comedy written by Diana Glenn and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an analysis of the presence and significance of female characters in Dante's 'Comedy'. Commencing with the tabulations of women listed in "Inferno IV" and "Purgatorio XXII", to which may be added the grouping in "Paradiso XXXII", this work traces the symmetry and symbolic import of these clusters.
Author : Elena Lombardi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192550942
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante written by Elena Lombardi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante brings to light a new character in medieval literature: that of the woman reader and interlocutor. It does so by establishing a dialogue between literary studies, gender studies, the history of literacy, and the material culture of the book in medieval times. From Guittone d'Arezzo's piercing critic, the 'villainous woman', to the mysterious Lady who bids Guido Cavalcanti to write his grand philosophical song, to Dante's female co-editors in the Vita Nova and his great characters of female readers, such as Francesca and Beatrice in the Comedy, all the way to Boccaccio's overtly female audience, this particular interlocutor appears to be central to the construct of textuality and the construction of literary authority. This volume explores the figure of the woman reader by contextualizing her within the history of female literacy, the material culture of the book, and the ways in which writers and poets of earlier traditions imagined her. It argues that these figures are not mere veneers between a male author and a 'real' male readership, but that, although fictional, they bring several advantages to their vernacular authors, such as orality, the mother tongue, the recollection of the delights of early education, literality, freedom in interpretation, absence of teleology, the beauties of ornamentation and amplification, a reduced preoccupation with the fixity of the text, the pleasure of making mistakes, dialogue with the other, the extension of desire, original simplicity, and new and more flexible forms of authority.
Author : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351681583
Total Pages : 2033 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006) written by Margaret Schaus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 2033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE. This reference work provides a comprehensive understanding of many aspects of medieval women and gender, such as art, economics, law, literature, sexuality, politics, philosophy and religion, as well as the daily lives of ordinary women. Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Additional up-to-date bibliographies have been included for the 2016 reprint. Written by renowned international scholars and easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be a valuable resource on women in Medieval Europe.
Author : Constance Brittain Bouchard
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801440588
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
Download or read book "Every Valley Shall be Exalted" written by Constance Brittain Bouchard and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers brought order to their lives through the creation of opposing categories. In a highly original work, Constance Brittain Bouchard examines this poorly understood component of twelfth-century thought, one responsible, in her view, for the fundamental strangeness of that culture to modern thinking.Scholars have long recognized that dialectical reasoning was the basic approach to philosophical, legal, and theological matters in the high Middle Ages. Bouchard argues that this way of thinking and categorizing--which she terms a "discourse of opposites"--permeated all aspects of medieval thought. She rejects suggestions that it was the result of imprecision, and provides evidence that people of that era sought not to reconcile opposing categories but rather to maintain them. Bouchard scrutinizes the medieval use of opposites in five broad areas: scholasticism, romance, legal disputes, conversion, and the construction of gender. Drawing on research in a series of previously unedited charters and the earliest glossa manuscripts, she demonstrates that this method of constructing reality was a constitutive element of the thought of the period.
Author : Pamela Williams
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1905886403
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Through Human Love to God written by Pamela Williams and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante and Petrarch are two of the world's greatest love poets who convey the story of their emotional, intellectual, and religious life in part through a story of human love. The focus here is not so much on the myriad symbolic values and associations of Beatrice and Laura but rather both on the attitudes of these two poets to sexual desire in order to throw some light on the character of their human love and on the status and value they give to human love in the context of their Christian lives.For all the stark contrasts between them, Dante and Petrarch have been often compared, for they write in a common literary, classical, and Christian tradition. The comparison generally leads to the conclusion that Dante describes his human love experience as positive and constructive whilst Petrarch's experience of love is negative and destructive. My intention here is not to polarize their views in this way, but rather to identify the different yet positive and highly original value both poets attribute to human love. More than fifty years ago, Etienne Gilson claimed that Peter Abelard turned to loving God in the way that Heloise had loved him, with the disinterestedness which she claimed in loving him and which she accused him of never understanding in loving her. It is the general argument of this study that Dante and Petrarch, as well as leaving their original mark on the treatment of love in literature, have insights into religion, personal to them, which can be likewise characterized by examining their attitude to human love and the story of their personal loves. There are many more aspects to their Catholicism than are examined in these essays. The discussion here is of that part of their faith which grows out of, is coloured by, or at least can be explored, through their human loving.
Author : Lisa Renée Perfetti
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472113217
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Women & Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature written by Lisa Renée Perfetti and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays a range of medieval heroines to ascertain how humor might have been used and enjoyed by medieval women
Author : Teodolinda Barolini
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823227057
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture written by Teodolinda Barolini and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its “three crowns”: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the origins of Italian literary culture through four prisms: the ideological/philosophical, the intertextual/multicultural, the structural/formal, and the social. The essays in the first section treat the ideology of love and desire from the early lyric tradition to the Inferno and its antecedents in philosophy and theology. In the second, Barolini focuses on Dante as heir to both the Christian visionary and the classical pagan traditions (with emphasis on Vergil and Ovid). The essays in the third part analyze the narrative character of Dante’s Vita nuova, Petrarch’s lyric sequence, and Boccaccio’s Decameron. Barolini also looks at the cultural implications of the editorial history of Dante’s rime and at what sparso versus organico spells in the Italian imaginary. In the section on gender, she argues that the didactic texts intended for women’s use and instruction, as explored by Guittone, Dante, and Boccaccio—but not by Petrarch—were more progressive than the courtly style for which the Italian tradition is celebrated. Moving from the lyric origins of the Divine Comedy in “Dante and the Lyric Past” to Petrarch’s regressive stance on gender in “Notes toward a Gendered History of Italian Literature”—and encompassing, among others, Giacomo da Lentini, Guido Cavalcanti, and Guittone d’Arezzo—these sixteen essays by one of our leading critics frame the literary culture of thirteenth-and fourteenth-century Italy in fresh, illuminating ways that will prove useful and instructive to students and scholars alike.
Author : Linda Lomperis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812213645
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature written by Linda Lomperis and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature forges a new link between contemporary feminist and cultural theory and medieval history and literature. The essays establish crucial historical connections between feminist theorizing about the body and specific accounts of gendered bodies in medieval texts.
Author : Amilcare A. Iannucci
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802077363
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Dante written by Amilcare A. Iannucci and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume probe current critical assumptions about the celebrated Italian poet, literary theorist, moral philosopher, political theorist.
