UID:
almafu_9960118432402883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 420 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78744-911-4
Content:
Wide-ranging examination of women's achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 May 2020).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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List of Contributors --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction --
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Taking Early Women Intellectuals and Leaders Seriously --
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Part I. Scholarship, Law, and Poetry: Jewish and Muslim Women --
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Preface to Part I: Authorship and Intellectual Life: Jewish and Muslim Women --
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1 Gender, Scholarship, and the Construction of Authority in the Pre-Modern Muslim World --
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2 The Historiography of Absence: Preliminary Steps towards a New History of Andalusi Women Poets --
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3 Medieval Anglo-Jewish Women at Court --
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Part II. Authorship, Intellectual Life, and the Professional Writer --
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Preface to Part II: Intellectuals, Leaders, Doctores --
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4 Agnes of Harcourt as Intellectual: New Evidence for the Composition and Circulation of the Vie d'Isabelle de France --
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5 Catherine of Siena, Auctor --
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6 Christine de Pizan on the Jews, in Three Texts: The Heures de contemplation sur la Passion de Nostre Seigneur Jhesucrist, the Fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V, and the Mutacion de Fortune --
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7 Walking in Grandmothers' Footsteps: Mary Ward and the Medieval Spiritual and Intellectual Heritage --
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Part III. Recovering Lost Women's Authorship --
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Preface to Part III: Recovering Lost Women's Authorship: New Solutions to Old Problems --
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8 A Woman Author? The Middle Dutch Dialogue between a "Good-willed Layperson" and a "Master Eckhart" --
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9 Recovery and Loss: Women's Writing around Marie de France --
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10 The Visions, Experiments, and Operations of Bridget of Autruy (fl. 1305-15) --
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Part IV. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Gender, Patronage, and Power --
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Preface to Part IV: Methodological Innovations for the Study of Women's Authorship and Agency --
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11 Written with her Own Hand: Perpetua's Representation of Non-Binary Gender in Old English Hagiography --
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12 The Materialization of Knowledge in Thirteenth-Century England: Joan Tateshal, Robert Grosseteste, and the Tateshal Miscellany --
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13 Networks of Influence: Widows, Sole Administration, and Unconventional Relationships in Thirteenth-Century London --
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Part V. Religious Women in Leadership, Ministry, and Latin Ecclesiastical Culture --
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Preface to Part V: Religious Women in Leadership, Ministry, and Latin Ecclesiastical Culture --
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14 Bede's Abbesses --
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15 Women's Latinity in the Early English Anchorhold --
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16 The Treatment of Ordination in Recent Scholarship on Religious Women in the Early Middle Ages --
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17 Saint Colette de Corbie (1381-1447): Reformist Leadership and Belated Sainthood --
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18 Women Priests at Barking Abbey in the Late Middle Ages --
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Part VI. Out of the Shadows: Laywomen in Communal Leadership --
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Preface to Part VI: Laywomen as Leaders --
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19 Women Donors and Ecclesiastical Reform: Evidence from Camaldoli and Vallombrosa, c. 1000-1150 --
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20 Laywomen's Leadership in Medieval Miracle Cults: Evidence from Britain, c. 1150-1250 --
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21 Mechthild of Magdeburg at Helfta: A Study in Literary Influence --
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Epilogue --
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Positioning Women in Medieval Society, Culture, and Religion --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84384-555-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1515/9781787449114
URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787449114/type/BOOK
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