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Women and writing in medieval Europe : a sourcebook /
Carolyne Larrington has gathered together a uniquely comprehensive collection of writing by, for and about medieval women, spanning one thousand years and Europe from Iceland to Byzantiu. The extracts are arranged thematically, dealing with the central areas of medieval women's lives and their...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Marriage
- good wives
- malmariee
- Marriages in romance
- rash wooing: unusual events at a wedding feast
- disobedient wife
- forward young woman
- Duties of the bourgeois housewife
- Caring for a sick husband
- clandestine marriage
- 2. Love, Sex and Friendship
- early woman's song
- Sexual passion recalled
- Two later love-lyrics
- Trobairitz
- About love
- writing of love letters
- Love between women
- Archpriest of Hita
- Il Dolce Stil Nuovo
- alba (dawn-song)
- woman poet celebrates the female genitals
- dangers of courtly love
- thwarted affair
- Valentine letter
- Spanish woman poet
- 3. Motherhood and Work
- Fredegund and Rigunth
- Old English pregnancy charms
- Taking in an orphan child
- Trobairitz lyric on child-bearing
- Mothers in Montaillou
- horrors of motherhood
- Margery and her children
- ^ On the motherhood of Christ
- Freydis's trading venture
- Women in retail
- Margery's business ventures
- division of labour
- 4. Women and Christianity
- life and death of Abbess Hild
- Nun of Watton
- Hildegard's vision of Ecclesia, the Church
- Rannveig's vision
- women of Helfta
- Letters of St Clare of Assisi
- 5. Women and Power
- Fredegund
- Sigrid the Strong-minded
- Anna Dalassena and imperial power
- Alvild the Pirate
- Queen Philippa and the burghers of Calais
- noble lady known to Christine de Pizan
- way of life of the wise princess
- Joan of Arc
- 6. Education and Knowledge
- learning of Anglo-Saxon nuns
- teaching of girls
- wise woman prophesies
- Women's physiology
- Heloise and Abelard
- Women's education and Christine's own experience
- foolishness of fashion
- Selling one's soul for knowledge
- 7. Women and the Arts
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