Women S Genealogies In The Medieval Literary Imagination
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Women s Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination
Author | : Emma O. Bérat |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2024-02-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781009434751 |
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Emma O. Bérat shows the centrality of women's legacies to medieval political and literary thought in chronicles, hagiography, and genealogy.
Genealogies of Fiction
Author | : Eleonora Stoppino |
Publsiher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780823240371 |
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Genealogies of Fiction is a study of gender, dynastic politics, and intertextuality in medieval and renaissance chivalric epic, focused on Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso. Relying on the direct study of manuscripts and incunabula, this project challenges the fixed distinction between medieval and early modern texts and reclaims medieval popular epic as a key source for the Furioso. Tracing the formation of the character of the warrior woman, from the Amazon to Bradamante, the book analyzes the process of gender construction in early modern Italy. By reading the tension between the representations of women as fighters, lovers, and mothers, this study shows how the warrior woman is a symbolic center for the construction of legitimacy in the complex web of fears and expectations of the Northern Italian Renaissance court.
Etymologies and Genealogies
Author | : R. Howard Bloch |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1986-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226059822 |
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"Mr. Bloch has attempted to establish what he calls a 'literary anthropology.' The project is important and ambitious. It seems to me that Mr. Bloch has completely achieved this ambition." –Michel Foucault "Bloch's Study is a genuinely interdisciplinary one, bringing together elements of history, ethnology, philology, philosophy, economics and literature, with the undoubted ambition of generating a new synthesis which will enable us to read the Middle Ages in a different light. Stated simply, and in terms which do justice neither to the density nor the subtlety of his argument, Bloch's thesis is this: that medieval society perceived itself in terms of a vertical mode of descent from origins. This model is articulated etymologically in medieval theories of grammar and language, and is consequently reflected in historical and theological writings; it is also latent in the genealogical structure of the aristocratic family as it began to be organized in France in the twelfth century, and is made manifest in such systems of signs as heraldry and the adoption of patronymns. . . . It is an ingenious and compelling synthesis which no medievalist, even on this side of the Atlantic, can afford to ignore." –Nicholas Mann, Times Literary Supplement
Visualizing Ancestry in the High and Late Middle Ages
Author | : Joan A. Holladay |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2019-01-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781108470186 |
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Appearing in all figural media from the mid-twelfth century, family trees and lineages made political claims for their patrons.
Women and Writing in Medieval Europe A Sourcebook
Author | : Carolyne Larrington |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781134843329 |
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Carolyne Larrington has gathered together a uniquely comprehensive collection of writing by, for and about medieval women, spanning one thousand years and Europe from Iceland to Byzantiu. The extracts are arranged thematically, dealing with the central areas of medieval women's lives and their relation to social and cultural institutions. Each section is contextualised with a brief historical introduction, and the materials span literary, historical, theological and other narrative and imaginative writing. The writings here uncover and confound the stereotype of the medieval woman as lady or virgin by demonstrating the different roles and meanings that the sign of woman occupied in the imaginative space of the medieval period. Larrington's clear and accessible editorial material and the modern English translations of all the extracts mean this work is ideally suited for students. Women and Writing in Early Europe: A Sourcebook also contains an extensive and fully up-to-date bibliography, making it not only essential reading for undergraduates and post graduates but also a valuable tool for scholars.
The Worlds of Medieval Women
Author | : Constance H. Berman,Charles W. Connell,Judith Rice Rothschild |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UVA:X001024629 |
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Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages
Author | : Zrinka Stahuljak |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0813028620 |
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Zrinka Stahuljak reevaluates, in Old French literature and art, two concepts fundamental for the medieval period: genealogy and translatio. She argues that literary criticism has inherited the definition of genealogy developed by historians, wherein genealogy is defined as a bloodline linking fathers and sons from generation to generation. Similarly, she maintains, literary criticism has interpreted medieval translatio, a concept fundamental for understanding all forms of intellectual and political transmission in the Middle Ages, as a genealogy. Through an analysis of the romances of antiquity, Arthurian prose romances, the Charlemagne window at Chartres, and the iconography of the Tree of Jesse, covering the period between 1150 and 1250, she challenges both these notions at the core of medieval scholarship. Because she addresses such basic concepts of medieval literature and culture that transcend national and linguistic boundaries, Stahuljak’s study, drawing on literary, historical, and visual sources, has implications well beyond French medieval studies. Her examination of canonical texts and traditional, long-held notions of how genealogy works in literature and of the medieval theory of translation will provide interesting, fresh analysis and methodology for the classroom and a significant contribution to our understanding of the relationship of linguistics, history, and anthropology in the 12th century.
Encyclopedia of Women in the Middle Ages
Author | : Jennifer Lawler |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2018-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781476601113 |
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Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in the 15th century fought against the English for the French gaining sainthood in 1920. Many know of Eleanor of Aquataine, 12th century Queen of France and England, and powerful manipulator and protector of kings. Some know of Hildegarde and Beatrice and Blanche and Clare. There are many famous women of the Middle Ages whose lives and leadership brought important changes to history. This encyclopedia contains several hundred entries on the culture, history and circumstances of women in the Middle Ages, from the years 500 to 1500 C.E. The geographical scope of this work is wide, with entries on women from England, France, Germany, Japan, and other nations around the world. There are entries on queens, empresses, and other women in positions of leadership as well as entries on topics such as work, marriage and family, households, employment, religion, and various other aspects of women’s lives in the Middle Ages. Genealogies of queens and empresses accompany the text in an appendix.