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Medieval women in their communities / edited by Diane Watt.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1997.Description: xii, 250 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0802081223 (paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4/094/0902 21
Contents:
Introduction: Medieval Women in their Communities / Diane Watt -- 1. The Desire to Corrupt: Convent and Community in Medieval Wales / Jane Cartwright -- 2. Puellae litteratae: The Use of the Vernacular in the Dominican Convents of Southern Germany / Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner -- 3. All Girls Together: Community, Gender, and Vision at Helfta / Rosalynn Voaden -- 4. 'Discreet and Devout Maidens': Women's Involvement in Beguine Communities in Northern France, 1200-1500 / Penelope Galloway -- 5. Mysticism and the Anchoritic Community: 'A Time ... of Veiled Infinity' / Susannah Mary Chewning -- 6. Communities of Otherness in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale / Cynthia Kraman -- 7. Communities of Dissent: The Secular and Ecclesiastical Communities of Margery Kempe's Book / Janet Wilson -- 8. English Noblewomen and the Local Community in the Later Middle Ages / Jennifer C. Ward -- 9. Gender and Poverty in the Medieval Community / Patricia Skinner.
10. Between Doctrine and Domesticity: The Portrayal of Mary in the N-Town Plays / J. A. Tasioulas.
Summary: The lives of women in religious communities in late medieval Europe are the main focus of this volume which brings together a body of original research by historians and literary scholars and discusses a variety of such communities in France, Germany and Wales. The perspective is also broadened to include the lives of women in relation to the local community in places as far apart as East Anglian and southern Italy.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 305.409 MED (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 64608

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Medieval Women in their Communities / Diane Watt -- 1. The Desire to Corrupt: Convent and Community in Medieval Wales / Jane Cartwright -- 2. Puellae litteratae: The Use of the Vernacular in the Dominican Convents of Southern Germany / Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner -- 3. All Girls Together: Community, Gender, and Vision at Helfta / Rosalynn Voaden -- 4. 'Discreet and Devout Maidens': Women's Involvement in Beguine Communities in Northern France, 1200-1500 / Penelope Galloway -- 5. Mysticism and the Anchoritic Community: 'A Time ... of Veiled Infinity' / Susannah Mary Chewning -- 6. Communities of Otherness in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale / Cynthia Kraman -- 7. Communities of Dissent: The Secular and Ecclesiastical Communities of Margery Kempe's Book / Janet Wilson -- 8. English Noblewomen and the Local Community in the Later Middle Ages / Jennifer C. Ward -- 9. Gender and Poverty in the Medieval Community / Patricia Skinner.

10. Between Doctrine and Domesticity: The Portrayal of Mary in the N-Town Plays / J. A. Tasioulas.

The lives of women in religious communities in late medieval Europe are the main focus of this volume which brings together a body of original research by historians and literary scholars and discusses a variety of such communities in France, Germany and Wales. The perspective is also broadened to include the lives of women in relation to the local community in places as far apart as East Anglian and southern Italy.

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