Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages, Volumen1Bonnie Wheeler Boydell & Brewer, 1993 - 355 páginas When, in their various titles, the authors comprised within this volume speak of 'rhetoric and gender', 'faith and bondage', self-perception, self-revelation, 'beauty and equality', they do more than indicate the particular thrust of their individual studies. They point to a common theme and pre-occupation: a shared and collaborative endeavour to view medieval women - in life, literature, legend, hagiography and art - 'through their own eyes' which was seminal to this volume and this series. For the most part, the women portrayed have speak to us through intermediaries. Hildegard of Bingen, Christine de Pisan, and Ann Hutchinson's 'recusant nuns' may present themselves in their own words - though even here there are veils of concealment, dissimulation, assumption and presumption to be removed - but Chaucer's women, Chretien's patrons, Milton's Eve, the conflation of saints which comprises Wilgefortis, Ste Foy, and the imperious Theodora are presented in the words, works and social milieux of men. Where they are, ostensibly, given their own voices it is by male authors. That the women presented here did in fact have personalities of their own - as plain common-sense might have been expected to allow - and can be argued to display them, however inadvertently, in the male creations which embody them, is evident in this collection, which raises interesting incidental questions about the purposes, for example, of Chaucer, Milton and the mosaicists of Ravenna. |
Contenido
Abbreviations | 12 |
reviewing the complaint | 43 |
the element of despair in Chaucers Squires | 69 |
rhetoric and gender in the Franklins | 84 |
the poetics of sexual desire | 117 |
the problem of word and will in Chaucers Clerks | 139 |
The role of the empress Theodora in the imperial panels at the church | 161 |
aspects of the imperial mosaics | 175 |
a selfportrait of disruptive excess | 217 |
Hildegard of Bingens | 235 |
Paradigmatic | 253 |
the spiritual and political meaning of chains at | 277 |
the case | 291 |
letters of a recusant nun | 329 |
Términos y frases comunes
Agnellus Anelida Anelida and Arcite Anelida's complaint Arcite argues Arveragus Arveragus's Aurelius Aurelius's beard Belisarius Bynum Byzantine century chap character Chaucer Christ Christine Christine de Pisan Christine's church Clerk's Tale Conques Constantinople courtly Criseyde Criseyde's cult Damyan desire divine Dorigen dream-vision emperor empress Eulalia falcon female feminine first-person Franklin's Tale FranT Galla Galla Placidia gender Griselda herte Hildegard of Bingen hire Januarie's Justinian Justinianic panel lady legend Liberata liturgy lover male marriage Mary masculine Matasuntha Maximian May's Medieval metonymic Middle Ages mosaic narrative narrator Newman Pandarus Plate poem Procopius promise Ravenna readers rhetorical role Roman saints San Vitale Scivias sexual Sister Elizabeth Sister of Wisdom speech Squire's St Wilgefortis story tale's Theodora thyng tion tradition trans Troilus Troilus's truth University Press virgin vision Volto Santo Walter Wars bk wife Wilgefortis woman women word
Referencias a este libro
Christine de Pizan and Biblical Wisdom: A Feminist-theological Point of View Bonnie A. Birk Vista de fragmentos - 2005 |
Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature Robert Thomas Lambdin,Laura Lambdin Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |