Format:
Online-Ressource (vi, 453 p)
Edition:
2011
ISBN:
9783110897777
Series Statement:
Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 1
Content:
Biographical note: Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, USA.
Content:
Diese Arbeit bietet neue Einsichten in die Textproduktion von Frauen im deutschen und europäischen Mittelalter und im Reformationszeitalter. Zugleich kommen männliche Dichter zur Sprache, die explizit Gewalt gegen Frauen verurteilten und diesen hohen Respekt zollten. Überwiegend werden aber Frauenstimmen berücksichtigt, die bisher relativ unbekannt geblieben sind. Außerdem bieten einige Kapitel vergleichende Perspektiven, die neues Licht auf die Texte deutscher Schriftstellerinnen werfen und sie als gleichbedeutend neben Figuren wie Christine de Pizan, Marie de France und Margery Kempe stellen.
Content:
The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and male - are heard. The study opens with an enquiry into violence against women, including in texts by male writers (Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach) which indeed describe instances of violence, but adopt an extremely critical stance towards them. It then proceeds to show how women were able to develop an independent identity in various genres and could present themselves as authorities in the public eye. Mystic texts by Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France and Margery Kempe, the medieval conduct poem known as Die Winsbeckin, the Devout Books of Sisters composed in convents in South-West Germany, but also quasi-historical documents such as the memoirs of Helene Kottaner or Anna Weckerin's cookery book, demonstrate that far more women were in the public gaze than had hitherto been assumed and that they possessed the self-confidence to establish their positions with their intellectual and their literary achievements.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110199416
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110199413
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110897777
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Classen, Albrecht, 1956 - The power of a woman's voice in medieval and early modern literatures Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 2007 ISBN 3110199416
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110199413
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Classen, Albrecht, 1956 - The power of a woman's voice in medieval and early modern literatures Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 2007 ISBN 3110199416
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110199413
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. ISBN 978-3-11-089777-7
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Europa
;
Frauenliteratur
;
Geschichte 900-1600
;
Europa
;
Literatur
;
Frau
;
Geschichte 900-1600
DOI:
10.1515/9783110897777
URL:
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Author information:
Classen, Albrecht 1956-
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