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Medieval women and their objects / Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury, editors.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Adams, Jenny, 1969- editor.
Bradbury, Nancy M., editor.
Collette, Carolyn P., honouree.
JSTOR (Organization)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women--France--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Women.
Literature, Medieval--Women authors.
Literature, Medieval.
Material culture.
History.
Personal belongings.
Sex role.
France.
Women--England--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
England.
Sex role--France--History--To 1500.
Sex role--England--History--To 1500.
Personal belongings--France--History--To 1500.
Personal belongings--England--History--To 1500.
Material culture--France--History--To 1500.
Material culture--England--History--To 1500.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval--Women authors--History and criticism.
Genre:
Festschriften.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
polychrome
Place of Publication:
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Dedication to Carolyn P. Collette / Arlyn Diamond
Introduction: Medieval Women and Their Objects / Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury
Part 1. Objects and Gender in a Material World
The "Thyng Wommen Loven Moost" : The Wife of Bath's Fabliau Answer / Susanna Fein
Zenobia's Objects / Nancy Mason Bradbury
The Object of Miraculous Song in "The Prioress's Tale" / Howell Chickering
Part 2. Buildings, Books, and Women's (Self-)Fashioning
A Gift from the Queen : The Architecture of the College de Navarre in Paris / Michael T. Davis
Anne of Bohemia and the Objects of Ricardian Kingship / Lynn Staley
Royal Biography as Reliquary : Christine de Pizan's Livre des Fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V / Nadia Margolis
A Gift, a Mirror, a Memorial : The Psalter-Hours of Mary de Bohun / Jill C. Havens
"Parchment and Pure Flesh" : Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of the Twelfth Earl of Oxford, and Her Book / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Part 3. Bodies, Objects, and Objects in the Shape of Bodies
Objects of the Law : The Cases of Dorigen and Virginia / Eleanor Johnson
Galatea's Pulse : Objects, Ethics, and Jean de Meun's Conclusion / Robert R. Edwards
Transgender and the Chess Queen in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess / Jenny Adams
Statues, Bodies, and Souls : St. Cecilia and Some Medieval Attitudes toward Ancient Rome / C. David Benson
Contributors.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 30, 2016).
ISBN:
9780472122394
0472122398
Publisher Number:
40026703841
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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