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Gendering the master narrative : women and power in the Middle Ages
Title
Gendering the master narrative : women and power in the Middle Ages / edited by Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski.
ISBN
0801441129 (alk. paper)
0801488303 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Physical Description
viii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 24, 2003
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-256) and index.
Contents
A new economy of power relations: female agency in the middle ages / Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski
Women and power through the family revisited / Jo Ann McNamara
Women and confession: from empowerment to pathology / Dyan Elliott
"With the heat of the hungry heart": empowerment and Ancrene wisse / Nicholas Watson
Powers of record, powers of example: hagiography and women's history / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Who is the master of this narrative? Maternal patronage of the cult of St. Margaret / Wendy R. Larson
"The wise mother": the image of St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary / Pamela Sheingorn
Did goddesses empower women? the case of dame nature / Barbara Newman
Women in the late medieval English parish / Katherine L. French
Public exposure? consorts and ritual in late medieval Europe: the example of the entrance of the dogaresse of Venice / Holly S. Hurlburt
Women's influence on the design of urban homes / Sarah Rees Jones
Looking closely: authority and intimacy in the late medieval urban home / Felicity Riddy.
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