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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
D.S. Brewer,
2011.
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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.