Title Gendering the master narrative : women and power in the Middle Ages / edited by Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 269 pages) : illustrations 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 Summary Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing how practices and institutions that ostensibly enabled women in the Middle Ages could sometimes erode their authority as well. This book provides a much-needed theoretical and historical reassessment of medieval women's power. It updates the conclusions from the editors' essential volume on that topic, Women and Power in the Middle Ages, which was published in 1988 and altered the prevailing view of female subservience by correcting the nearly ubiquitous equation of "power" with "public authority." Most scholars now accept a broader definition of power based on the interactions between men and women. In their Introduction, Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski survey the directions in which the study of medieval women's agency has developed in the past fifteen years. Like its predecessor, this volume is richly interdisciplinary. It contains essays by highly regarded scholars of history, literature, and art history, and features seventeen black-and-white illustrations and two maps Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-256) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500. Literature, Medieval -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500. Power (Social sciences) Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500 Women in literature. Rhetoric, Medieval. Women and literature -- History -- To 1500 Narration (Rhetoric) 17.93 themes and motives in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval. Literature, Medieval -- Women authors Narration (Rhetoric) Power (Social sciences) Rhetoric, Medieval Social history -- Medieval Women and literature Women in literature Women -- Middle Ages Gesellschaft Familie Autorität Mittelalter Literatur Macht Frau Letterkunde. Vrouwen. Macht. Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500. Literature, Medieval -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Europe -- History. Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500. Power (Social sciences) Narration (Rhetoric) Women in literature. Rhetoric, Medieval. Europe Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Erler, Mary Carpenter Kowaleski, Maryanne LC no. 2002151956 ISBN 9781501723957 1501723952

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