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Middle-aged women in the Middle Ages / edited by Sue Niebrzydowski.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gender in the Middle Ages ; v. 7.
- Gender in the Middle Ages ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle-aged women--History--To 1500.
- Middle-aged women.
- Women--history.
- Middle Aged.
- Prejudice.
- Social Values--history.
- Gender Identity.
- History, Medieval.
- History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Women--history.
- Middle Aged.
- Prejudice.
- Social Values--history.
- Gender Identity.
- History, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 153 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2011.
- Summary:
- New research into medieval women from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period demonstrates their energy, defiance and wit.
- Contents:
- "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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-149) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781843842828
- 1843842823
- OCLC:
- 709669435
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