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Middle-aged women in the Middle Ages /

"The phenomenon of medieval women's middle age is a stage in the lifecycle that has been frequently overlooked in preference for the examination of female youth and old age. The essays collected here, ranging from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period, and drawing variously from lite...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Niebrzydowski, Sue (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2011.
Colección:Gender in the Middle Ages ; v. 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Becoming bene'straw" : the middle-aged woman in the Middle Ages / Sue Niebrzydowski
  • Age of discretion : women at forty and beyond / Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
  • Seeking the middle-aged woman in medieval Wales / Sara Elin Roberts
  • Middle age in romance? Magic, enchantment and female power / Corinne Saunders
  • Age and desire in the Old English Life of St. Mary of Egypt : a queerer time and place? / Diane Watt and Clare A. Lees
  • St. Albans Psalter : sex, desire and the middle-aged woman / Jane Geddes
  • Speaking volumes : the middle-aged woman and the book in medieval England / Carol M. Meale
  • "Late hir seye what sche wyl" : older women's speech and the Book of Margery Kempe / Sue Niebrzydowski
  • Preparing for mature years : the case of Margaret of Anjou and her books / Raluca L. Radulescu.