Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women

Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women PDF Author:
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580445004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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This sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts that advance our understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late medieval German-speaking world. Three of the translated texts are fiction. Additionally, there is a religious treatise, a religious legend, an inventory of books, and a legal document. While each of these texts is instructive in and of itself, they gain in complexity when brought into dialogue with one another.

Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women

Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women PDF Author:
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580445004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Book Description
This sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts that advance our understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late medieval German-speaking world. Three of the translated texts are fiction. Additionally, there is a religious treatise, a religious legend, an inventory of books, and a legal document. While each of these texts is instructive in and of itself, they gain in complexity when brought into dialogue with one another.

Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany

Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany PDF Author: Jamie Page
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198862784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Based on legal case studies, this book focuses on how gender discourse shaped the lives of prostitutes in medieval Germany.

Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies

Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies PDF Author: Laine E. Doggett
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843844273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages.

A Companion to Chivalry

A Companion to Chivalry PDF Author: Robert W. Jones
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783273720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture.

Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature PDF Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498585817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Prostitution is known as the oldest profession in the history of humanity. While historians have already given due consideration to the profession’s social and cultural meanings across time periods, little has been written about literary representations of prostitution. Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature analyses the work of writers from an array of social positions, including courtly poets and even religious writers, dealing with the topic during the medieval and early modern periods. Its study shows that prostitutes and brothel owners were present on the literary stage far more often than we might have assumed. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach and incorporating relevant sources from across the entire European continent dating from the early Middle Ages to the sixteenth century, it examines the phenomenon of prostitution in a variety of contexts and highlights the extent to which the institution mattered for both the higher and the lower classes.

Gender Bonds, Gender Binds

Gender Bonds, Gender Binds PDF Author: Sara S. Poor
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110729253
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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While Gender Studies has made its mark on literary studies, much scholarship on the German Middle Ages is largely inaccessible to the Anglo-American audience. With gender at its core as a category of analysis, "Gender Bonds, Gender Binds"uniquely opens up medieval German material to English speakers. Recognizing the impact of Ann Marie Rasmussen’s Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature, this transatlantic volume expands on questions introduced in her 1997 book and subsequent work. More than a mere tribute, the collection moves the debates forward in new directions: it examines how gender bonds together people, practices, texts, and interpretive traditions, while constraining and delimiting these things socially, ideologically, culturally, or historically. As the contributions demonstrate, a close, materially focused analysis produces complex results, not easily reduced to a platitude. The essays steer a firm course through the terrain of gender bonds and binds, many of which remain challenging in the present. Herein lies the broader reach of this volume, for understanding the longevity of patriarchy and its effects on human relations demonstrates how crucial the study of the past can be for us as a society today.

The Katherine Group (MS Bodley 34)

The Katherine Group (MS Bodley 34) PDF Author:
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580442498
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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The Katherine Group brings together for the first time newly edited and translated versions of three dynamic saints' lives, The Lives of Saints Katherine, Margaret and Juliana, a quirky but rhetorically persuasive guide to virginity, Hali Meidenhad, and a psychologically astute sermon, Sawles Warde ("The Guardianship of the Soul"). These works are important witnesses to the development of Middle English writing after the Conquest and to the rigorous anchoritic spiritual life pursued by female recluses in medieval England.

Two Middle English Prayer Cycles

Two Middle English Prayer Cycles PDF Author: Ben Parsons
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580446833
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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This book is the first critical edition of two fascinating but overlooked devotional texts. Each shines its own light on medieval faith. The Holkham Prayers and Meditations (ca.1410) is a rare example of female authorship, written by an unnamed woman to guide a "religious sustir." Simon Appulby's Fruyte of Redempcyon (1514) is more popular in aim, composed by one of England's last anchorites to serve his urban community. Both texts are accompanied by extensive notes and introductory essays to aid students and specialists alike.

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 37

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 37 PDF Author: Paul Maurice Clogan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442214287
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Volume 37— Literary Appropriations—examines medieval literature in a different light. This volume features six original articles, focusing on the art of appropriation, as well as fourteen reviews of recent scholarly publications. The first article “The Oldest Manuscript Witness of the First Life of Blessed Francis of Assisi” by Jacques Dalarun reveals the oldest known source of the writings of Francis of Assisi, until of late only found in an Italian church publication. Lisa Bansen-Harp’s essay “Ironic Patterning and Numerical Composition in the Vie de saint Alexis: Form and Effect/Affect” takes an ironic look at the oppositions used throughout the work to offer a rich analysis of patterns. Reexamining genealogy as spiritual rather than biological is Nicole Leapley’s essay “Rewriting Paternity: The Meaning of Renovating Westminster in La Esoire de seint Aedward le rei.” David Lummus’s essay “Boccaccio’s Three Venuses: On the Convergence of Celestial and Transgressive Love in the Genealogie Deorum Gentilium Libri” provides a comparative look of how love—celestial and transgressive—can be seen in the Decameron. “Dante’s Justinian, Cino’s Corpus: The Hermeneutics of Poetry and Law” by Lorenzo Valterza compares and contrasts Dante’s own view of law versus that of his friend Cino da Pistoia. Lastly, editor Paul Clogan contributes his own article “Dante’s Appropriation of Lucan’s Cato and Erichtho” to demonstrate the importance of Lucan’s characters in Dante’s own work Along with these articles, fourteen reviews, from the United States and all over the world, are included, truly making Medievalia et Humanistica an international publication. To reflect the submissions and audience for Medievalia et Humanistica, the editorial and review boards include ten members from the United States and ten international members, making thisa truly international publication. For submission guidelines, please contact Jin Yu at [email protected]. Please submit books for review consideration to: Attention: Reinhold F. Glei Medievalia et Humanistica Ruhr-University Bochum Seminar fuer Klassische Philologie D-44780 Bochum, Germany

Literary Appropriations

Literary Appropriations PDF Author: Paul Maurice Clogan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442214279
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy.