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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"medieval women"”.
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"There is a Threeness About You": Trinitarian Images of God, Self, and Community Among Medieval Women Visionaries
… three persons of the Godhead are also one—many medieval thinkers tried hard to capture its essence and importance. Among the richest and most original medieval images of the Trinity were those produced by women visionaries. This is a comparative study of seven of these women—Hildegard of Bingen, …
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Rhetoricizing Body and Ritual: Women Writing in the Middle Ages
… of Norwich, and Margery Kempe. I argue that medieval women writers create social dramas within their texts in order to accomplish those ritual transformations which remain unattainable through their personal experiences.
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Quant Se Depart Li Jolis Tans: Betrayal In The Songs Of Medieval French Women
<p>For decades, the authorship of women trouvères has been questioned. Although the debate is more or less over in today’s scholarship, research continues to search for evidence of not only their existence but for their contribution to the corpus. Women’s voices in the songs call out not only …
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En/gendering representations of childbirth in fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish devotional manuscripts
… appear to show a `gendered space' in which women care for each other and men are marginalized. Neglected by medieval art historians, such pictures have been uncritically used by historians of obstetric and social history to prove that childbirth was the one time when medieval women exercised …
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"Of heveneriche sely gate" : the spiritual significance of women in Medieval literature.
In her work on medieval women's religious symbols, historian Caroline Walker Bynum provides a paradigm for the positive interpretation of women's functions and positions in medieval literature. When examined through Bynum's paradigm—and especially her description of the maternal functions of …
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Pragmatism, Patronage, Piety and Participation: Women in the Anglo-Norman Chronicles
… how the writers of these histories perceived women. This study is meant to illuminate the lives of the women in the Anglo-Norman chronicles at every stage of life. While many modern books have addressed medieval women, they have attempted to deal with women more generally, looking at many …
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Representations of Women in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Man of Law’s Tale” and “Tale of Melibee”
… discusses stereotypical representations of women as it explores Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Understanding the Middle Ages and its treatment of women in society and art, the first section explores the idea of clergy and aristocracy as dominant groups responsible for the creation …
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Roesia De Verdun, Thirteenth Century Femme Sole
… illuminate the complex roles available to medieval women navigating power and identity. Divided into three parts, the study begins with Roesia’s dynastic positioning through marriage and motherhood, highlighting how her unions reflected contemporary norms and secured the de Verdun lineage. …
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Conducting Women: Gender, Power,and Authority in the Rhetoric of French and English Conduct Literature of the Later Middle Ages
… of this literature: Ann Landers advice column, women's magazines, and even modern books that tell us about etiquette. My dissertation examines English and French conduct literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries addressed to women. These texts build rhetorical authority in various …
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The Self, the Church, and Medieval Identities: The Evolution of the Individual in Medieval Literature
… the construction of literary identities by medieval women, recognizable as an authorial voice that is distinct from those of her contemporaries yet congruent with the gender norms and expectations of her contemporary culture, in both religious and secular literatures from late antiquity …
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"Once Mistress of the World :" Rome, St. Peter, and female devotion in the early Middle Ages
… I reassess the reception of Rome in the early medieval west from the historiographical background of women's history. Women's conception of Rome as a cult center, an intervening ally, and a devotional adviser between 300-900 CE proved crucial in a coming-of-age period for the papacy, whose …
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Kenosis as Performance of Power in the Theology of Julian of Norwich
… in the vernacular as a woman visionary in late medieval England placed Julian in an unprecedented and precarious position and enabled her to develop a creative dialectal theology that enacted her negotiation of power and submission.</p> <p>Chapter 3 investigates Julian's presentation of kenosis …