Women Power And Religious Patronage In The Middle Ages
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Women Power And Religious Patronage In The Middle Ages
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Author : Erin L. Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2006-05-27
Women Power And Religious Patronage In The Middle Ages written by Erin L. Jordan and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-27 with History categories.
As sisters and successive countesses of Flanders and Hainaut in the thirteenth century, Jeanne and Marguerite actively shaped the political landscape of northern Europe, and compiled an impressive record of monastic patronage. By examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters, this study provides a more complex understanding of the role of religious patronage in medieval society, and illuminates concerns specific to powerful women. It simultaneously illustrates the use of patronage to further their political agendas, offering a glimpse of the experience of female rulers in a period when their actions were often constrained and obscured by gender bias.
Women S Space
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Author : Virginia Chieffo Raguin
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Women S Space written by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Religion categories.
This interdisciplinary collection addresses the location of women and their bequests within the single most important public and social space in pre-Reformation Europe: the Roman Catholic Church. This innovative focus brings attention to gender and space as experienced in the medieval parish as well as in monastic and cathedral space. Through provocative handling of historical content and theory, the contributors explore strategies of exclusion and of inclusion and note patterns of later writers who neglect or rewrite records of female presence. Essays on the York religious cycle, the chronicle of the monastery at Ely, and The Book of Margery Kempe explore how medieval writers used texts as fictive spaces on which to graft responses to the gendered uses of real church buildings. These text-based essays are juxtaposed with tightly focused archival research in art history and history on Florentine patronage and English parish seating, as well as with more broadly synthetic studies on access of women to shrines and on gendered left-right placement in ritual art.
The Cultural Patronage Of Medieval Women
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Author : June Hall McCash
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1996
The Cultural Patronage Of Medieval Women written by June Hall McCash and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women is the first volume exclusively devoted to an examination of the significant role played by women as patrons in the evolution of medieval culture. The twelve essays in this volume look at women not simply as patrons of letters but also as patrons of the visual and decorative arts, of architecture, and of religious and educational foundations. Patronage as a means of empowerment for women is an issue that underlies many of the essays. Among the other topics discussed are the various forms patronage took, the obstacles to women's patronage, and the purposes behind patronage. Some women sought to further political and dynastic agendas; others were more concerned with religion and education; still others sought to provide positive role models for women. The amusement of their courts was also a consideration for female patrons. These essays also demonstrate that as patrons women were often innovators. They encouraged vernacular literature as well as the translation of historical works and of the Bible, frequently with commentary, into the vernacular. They led the way in sponsoring a variety of genres and encouraged some of the best-known and most influential writers of the Middle Ages. Moreover, they were at the forefront in fostering the new art of printing, which made books accessible to a larger number of people. Finally, the essays make clear that behind much patronage lay a concern for the betterment of women.
Women And Power In The Middle Ages
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Author : Mary Erler
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1988
Women And Power In The Middle Ages written by Mary Erler and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
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.
Medieval Women
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Author : Eileen Power
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997
Medieval Women written by Eileen Power and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
An accessible and clear snapshot of the life and work of women in medieval times from the nunnery to the town to the castle.
Power Piety And Patronage In Late Medieval Queenship
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Author : N. Silleras-Fernandez
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-05-24
Power Piety And Patronage In Late Medieval Queenship written by N. Silleras-Fernandez and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with History categories.
Based on an exhaustive and varied study of predominantly unpublished archival material as well as a variety of literary and non-literary sources, this book investigates the relation between patronage, piety and politics in the life and career of one Late Medieval Spain's most intriguing female personalities, Maria De Luna.
A Cultural History Of Women In The Middle Ages
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Author : Kim M. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-04-02
A Cultural History Of Women In The Middle Ages written by Kim M. Phillips and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-02 with History categories.
The medieval era has been described as 'the Age of Chivalry' and 'the Age of Faith' but also as 'the Dark Ages'. Medieval women have often been viewed as subject to a punishing misogyny which limited their legal rights and economic activities, but some scholars have claimed they enjoyed a 'rough and ready equality' with men. The contrasting figures of Eve and the Virgin Mary loom over historians' interpretations of the period 1000-1500. Yet a wealth of recent historiography goes behind these conventional motifs, showing how medieval women's lives were shaped by status, age, life-stage, geography and religion as well as by gender. A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages presents essays on medieval women's life cycle, bodies and sexuality, religion and popular beliefs, medicine and disease, public and private realms, education and work, power, and artistic representation to illustrate the diversity of medieval women's lives and constructions of femininity.
Female Power In The Middle Ages
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Author : Karen Glente
language : da
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Female Power In The Middle Ages written by Karen Glente and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Middle Ages categories.
Negotiating Community And Difference In Medieval Europe
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Author : Scott Wells
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-05-06
Negotiating Community And Difference In Medieval Europe written by Scott Wells and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-06 with History categories.
Encompassing the work of historians, art-historians, and literary scholars, these essays explore how interrelated processes of communal inclusion and exclusion - articulated through institutions, discourses, performances, and artefacts - shaped the construction of individual and collective identities in medieval Europe.
Gendering The Master Narrative
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Author : Mary Carpenter Erler
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2003
Gendering The Master Narrative written by Mary Carpenter Erler and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
A new economy of power relations: female agency in the middle ages / Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski -- Women and power through the family revisited / Jo Ann McNamara -- Women and confession: from empowerment to pathology / Dyan Elliott -- "With the heat of the hungry heart": empowerment and Ancrene wisse / Nicholas Watson -- Powers of record, powers of example: hagiography and women's history / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne -- Who is the master of this narrative? Maternal patronage of the cult of St. Margaret / Wendy R. Larson -- "The wise mother": the image of St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary / Pamela Sheingorn -- Did goddesses empower women? the case of dame nature / Barbara Newman -- Women in the late medieval English parish / Katherine L. French -- Public exposure? consorts and ritual in late medieval Europe: the example of the entrance of the dogaresse of Venice / Holly S. Hurlburt -- Women's influence on the design of urban homes / Sarah Rees Jones -- Looking closely: authority and intimacy in the late medieval urban home / Felicity Riddy.