Medieval Women - Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain
Essays in Honour of Felicity Riddy
J. Wogan-Browne,
R. Voaden,
A. Diamond,
A. Hutchison,
C. Meale,
L. Johnson (eds.)
XVI+436 p., 160 x 245 mm, 2000
ISBN: 978-2-503-50979-2
Languages: English
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Profiting from the development of
newly flexible models of gender, literacy, the political, the social,
and the domestic, this volume on medieval women considers the broadest
implications for the study of medieval culture without simply
re-absorbing medieval women into invisibility.
In this themed collection of 24 articles
by literary, historical and archaeological scholars, the study of
medieval women is confidently and freshly mainstream. Profiting from
the development of newly flexible models of gender, literacy, the
political, the social, and the domestic, the volume is non-separatist,
exploratory both of new source materials and new readings of
established sources, and able to consider the broadest implications for
the study of medieval culture without simply re-absorbing medieval
women into invisibility. Grouped under the headings of matters of
reading, of conduct and place, the essays move from legal cases to
actual buildings and conceptions of the household to conduct books and
chronicles to romances and saints' lives to the medieval
unconscious and back again, exemplifying the mature interdisciplinarity
of current work on medieval women.
The contributors are: Priscilla Bawcutt, Peter Biller, Julia
Boffey, Carolyn Collette, Patricia Cullum, Arlyn Diamond, Jane Gilbert,
Jeremy Goldberg, Douglas Gray, Jane Grenville, Ann Hutchison, Noel
James Menuge. Eric Johnson, Katherine Lewis, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan,
Sally Mapstone, Carol Meale, Alastair Minnis, Mark Ormrod, Helen
Phillips, Kim Phillips, Sarah Rees Jones, Colin Richmond, Anne Savage,
Nicholas Watson and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne.
Review
"The essays in this collection
show how very rewarding it can be to look, to look through, and to look
behind medieval texts with the kind of probing attention exemplified in
Felicity Riddy's important
work." (S. Trigg
in Parergon, p.248-250)
"...for anyone interested in late
medieval women, this is a Festschrift worth
buying..." (R. Horrox in
Ecclesiastical History, volume 53/4, October 2002,
p.801-802)
"The collection is of a uniformly
high intellectual calibre.(...) Not only an extremely handsome and
well-made book, Medieval Women, 2000, is a benchmark for the
festschrift genre." (A.
Blamires in Yearbook of English Studies, 33, 2003,
p.334-336)
" The editors provide an
intriguing mix of lively work, accurate referencing and a clear index,
and have produced a Festschrift worthy of a prominent and
influential medievalist." (K. Jackson in International Medieval
Research, n° 9-10 for 2003-2004 (2005), p.70-72)
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