Gendering the Master Narrative : Women and Power in the Middle Ages / Maryanne Kowaleski, Mary C. Erler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erler, Mary C., 1937- editor.

Kowaleski, Maryanne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric, Medieval.

Women in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Power (Social sciences).

Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Social history.

Women and literature--Europe--History--To 1500.

Women and literature.

Literature, Medieval--Women authors--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 269 p. :) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 enabled women in the Middle Ages could sometimes erode their authority as well.This book provides a much-needed theoretical and historical reassessment of medieval women's power. It updates the conclusions from the editors' essential volume on that topic, Women and Power in the Middle Ages, which was published in 1988 and altered the prevailing view of female subservience by correcting the nearly ubiquitous equation of "power" with "public authority." Most scholars now accept a broader definition of power based on the interactions between men and women.In their Introduction, Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski survey the directions in which the study of medieval women's agency has developed in the past fifteen years. Like its predecessor, this volume is richly interdisciplinary. It contains essays by highly regarded scholars of history, literature, and art history, and features seventeen black-and-white illustrations and two maps.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

Introduction. A New Economy of Power Relations: Female Agency in the Middle Ages / Erler, Mary C. / Kowaleski, Maryanne

CHAPTER ONE. Women and Power through the Family Revisited / McNamara, JoAnn

CHAPTER TWO. Women and Confession: From Empowerment to Pathology / Elliott, Dyan

CHAPTER THREE. "With the Heat of the Hungry Heart": Empowerment and Ancrene Wisse / Watson, Nicholas

CHAPTER FOUR. Powers of Record, Powers of Example: Hagiography and Women's History / Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn

CHAPTER FIVE. Who Is the Master of This Narrative? Maternal Patronage of the Cult of St. Margaret / Larson, Wendy R.

CHAPTER SIX. "The Wise Mother": The Image of St. Anne Teaching the Virgin Mary / Sheingorn, Pamela

CHAPTER SEVEN. Did Goddesses Empower Women? The Case of Dame Nature / Newman, Barbara

CHAPTER EIGHT. Women in the Late Medieval English Parish / French, Katherine L.

CHAPTER NINE. Public Exposure? Consorts and Ritual in Late Medieval Europe: The Example of the Entrance of the Dogaresse of Venice / Hurlburt, Holly S.

CHAPTER TEN. Women's Influence on the Design of Urban Homes / Jones, Sarah Rees

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Looking Closely: Authority and Intimacy in the Late Medieval Urban Home / Riddy, Felicity

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-256) and index.

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ISBN:

9781501723957

1501723952

OCLC:

1080549331