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Gendering the master narrative : women and power in the Middle Ages /

Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing how practices and institutions that ostensibly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Erler, Mary Carpenter, Kowaleski, Maryanne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.