Author: Jerold C. Frakes
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Examines gender issues that appear in the heroic epics Nibelungenlied, Diu Dlage, and Kudrun, all of which revolve around women. Reviews the conventional scholarship, and discusses property and power, intimate conversations and political strategies, Teuton as Amazon, sovereignty and class, and other topics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Languages : de
Pages : 280
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Author: Cynthia J. Cyrus
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802093698
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 409
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Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions of how manuscripts circulated in the late medieval period.
Author: Helena Cole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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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.
Author: S. Poor
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137066377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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These essays explore the place, function and meaning of women as characters, authors, constructs and symbols in Medieval epics from Persia, Spain, France, England, Germany and Scandinavia. Usually believed to narrate the deeds of men at war, this book looks at the key roles often played by women and the impact of this on the history of gender.
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.
Author: Gertrud Jaron Lewis
Publisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888441256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Author: Simon MacLean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192520490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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This is the first major study in English of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty (919-1024). The Ottonians were a family from Saxony who are often regarded as the founders of the medieval German kingdom. They were the most successful of all the dynasties to emerge from the wreckage of the pan-European Carolingian Empire after it disintegrated in 888, ruling as kings and emperors in Germany and Italy and exerting indirect hegemony in France and in Eastern Europe. It has long been noted by historians that Ottonian queens were peculiarly powerful - indeed, among the most powerful of the entire Middle Ages. Their reputations, particularly those of the empresses Theophanu (d.991) and Adelheid (d.999) have been commemorated for a thousand years in art, literature, and opera. But while the exceptional status of the Ottonian queens is well appreciated, it has not been fully explained. Ottonian Queenship offers an original interpretation of Ottonian queenship through a study of the sources for the dynasty's six queens, and seeks to explain it as a phenomenon with a beginning, middle, and end. The argument is that Ottonian queenship has to be understood as a feature in a broader historical landscape, and that its history is intimately connected with the unfolding story of the royal dynasty as a whole. Simon MacLean therefore interprets the spectacular status of Ottonian royal women not as a matter of extraordinary individual personalities, but as a distinctive product of the post-Carolingian era in which the certainties of the ninth century were breaking down amidst overlapping struggles for elite family power, royal legitimacy, and territory. Queenship provides a thread which takes us through the complicated story of a crucial century in Europe's creation, and helps explain how new ideas of order were constructed from the debris of the past.
Author: James Mitchell
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3640741595
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Art - Art Theory, General, grade: A, San Francisco State University, language: English, abstract: In this essay we will examine in detail the process by which witchcraft became deliberately and definitively feminized in fifteenth-century Germany, and we will also show how contemporary artists of the time made use of the prevailing popular notions about witches to depict them in accordance with the “evil old woman” archetype. We will also see how these women subjects became eroticized through their depiction as young seductresses and as participants in diabolical sexual extravaganzas of various kinds. Finally we will show how the witchcraft fright presented the same artists with the opportunity of illustrating women in sexually suggestive, not to say pornographic poses, made publicly permissible and even fashionable for the first time in the history of German art.
