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Book Poole s Index to Periodical Literature  pt  2  K Z  1802 1881

Download or read book Poole s Index to Periodical Literature pt 2 K Z 1802 1881 written by William Frederick Poole and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval Gentlewoman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ffiona Swabey
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780415925112
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Medieval Gentlewoman written by Ffiona Swabey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through an examination of Alice's "Household Book," and using other extant contemporary sources, the author has been able to illuminate the experiences of medieval women in general. The resulting work provides a vivid picture of life in the medieval household, examining marriage and widowhood, daily household and estate management, hospitality and entertainment, education, patronage, religious concerns and the private and public roles of medieval women of the estate-owning class."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Medieval Women and the Law

Download or read book Medieval Women and the Law written by Noël James Menuge and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc. Determined and largely successful effort to read behind and alongside legal discourses to discover women's voices and women's feelings. It adds usefully to the wider debate on women's role in medieval society. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW What is really new here is the ways in which the authors approach the history of the law: they use some decidedly non-legal texts to examine legal history; they bring together historical and literary sources; and they debunk the view that medieval laws had little to say about women or that medieval women had little legal agency. ALBION The legal position of the late medieval woman has been much neglected, and it is this gap which the essays collected here seek to fill. They explore the ways in which women of all ages and stations during the late middle ages (c.1300-c.1500) could legally shift for themselves, and how and where they did so. Particular topics discussed include the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage, care, custody and guardianship (with particular emphasis on the rights of a mother attempting to gain custody of her own children within the court system), women as traders, women as criminals, prostitution, the rights of battered women within the courts, the procedures women had to go through to gain legal redress and access, rape, and women within guilds. NOELJAMES MENUGE gained her Ph.D. from the Centre of Medieval Studies at the University of York. Contributors: P.J.P. GOLDBERG, VICTORIA THOMPSON, JENNIFER SMITH, CORDELIA BEATTIE, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, NOEL JAMES MENUGE, CORINNE SAUNDERS, KIM M. PHILLIPS, EMMA HAWKES

Book Everyday Life in Central Asia

Download or read book Everyday Life in Central Asia written by Jeff Sahadeo and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating anthology provides a range of perspectives on daily life across Central Asia and how it has changed in the post-Soviet era. For its citizens, contemporary Central Asia is a land of great promise and peril. While the end of Soviet rule has opened new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression, political and economic dynamics have also imposed severe hardships. In this lively volume, contributors from a variety of disciplines examine how ordinary Central Asians lead their lives and navigate shifting historical and political trends. Provocative stories of Turkmen nomads, Afghan villagers, Kazakh scientists, Kyrgyz border guards, a Tajik strongman, guardians of religious shrines in Uzbekistan, and other narratives illuminate important issues of gender, religion, power, culture, and wealth. A vibrant and dynamic world of life in urban neighborhoods and small villages, at weddings and celebrations, at classroom tables, and around dinner tables emerges from this introduction to a geopolitically strategic and culturally fascinating region.

Book Medieval Cantors and Their Craft

Download or read book Medieval Cantors and Their Craft written by Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis and published by Writing History in the Middle Ages. This book was released on 2017 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full-length study of the role and duties of the medieval cantor.

Book Promised Bodies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Dailey
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2013-08-27
  • ISBN : 023153552X
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Promised Bodies written by Patricia Dailey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner and outer persons that promises to find its true materiality in a time to come. A potentially transformative vehicle, it is a dynamic mirror that can reflect the work of the divine within and substantially alter its own materiality if receptive to divine grace. The writings of Hadewijch of Brabant, a thirteenth-century beguine, engage with this tradition in sophisticated ways both singular to her mysticism and indicative of the theological milieu of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Crossing linguistic and historical boundaries, Patricia Dailey connects the embodied poetics of Hadewijch's visions, writings, and letters to the work of Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite of Oingt, and other mystics and visionaries. She establishes new criteria to more consistently understand and assess the singularity of women's mystical texts and, by underscoring the similarities between men's and women's writings of the time, collapses traditional conceptions of gender as they relate to differences in style, language, interpretative practices, forms of literacy, and uses of textuality.

Book Late Medieval German Women s Poetry

Download or read book Late Medieval German Women s Poetry written by Albrecht Classen and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A considerable collection of German women's poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research.

Book Women  Men  and Spiritual Power

Download or read book Women Men and Spiritual Power written by John Wayland Coakley and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women, Men, and Spiritual Power, John Coakley explores male-authored narratives of the lives of Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, and six other female prophets or mystics of the late Middle Ages. His readings reveal the complex personal and literary relationships between these women and the clerics who wrote about them. Coakley's work also undermines simplistic characterizations of male control over women, offering an important contribution to medieval religious history. Coakley shows that these male-female relationships were marked by a fundamental tension between power and fascination: the priests and monks were supposed to hold authority over the women entrusted to their care, but they often switched roles, as the men became captivated with the women's spiritual gifts. In narratives of such women, the male authors reflect directly on the relationship between the women's powers and their own. Coakley argues that they viewed these relationships as gendered partnerships that brought together female mystical power and male ecclesiastical authority without placing one above the other. Women, Men, and Spiritual Power chronicles a wide-ranging experiment in the balance of formal and informal powers, in which it was assumed to be thoroughly imaginable for both sorts of authority, in their distinctly gendered terms, to coexist and build on each other. The men's writings reflect an extended moment in western Christianity when clerics had enough confidence in their authority to actually question its limits. After about 1400, however, clerics underwent a crisis of confidence, and such a questioning of institutional power was no longer considered safe. Instead of seeing women as partners, their revelatory powers began to be viewed as evidence of witchcraft.

Book Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts

Download or read book Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts written by Kathryn Maude and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.

Book Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe

Download or read book Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe written by Anne Duggan and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image, status and function of queens and empresses, regnant and consort, in kingdoms stretching from England to Jerusalem in the European middle ages. Did queens exercise real or counterfeit power? Did the promotion of the cult of the Virgin enhance or restrict their sphere of action? Is it time to revise the early feminist view of women as victims? Important papers on Emma of England, Margaret of Scotland, coronation and burial ritual, Byzantine empresses and Scandinavian queens, among others, clearly indicate that a reassessment of the role of women in the world of medieval dynastic politics is under way. Contributors: JANOS BAK, GEORGE CONKLIN, PAUL CROSSLEY, VOLKER HONEMANN, STEINAR IMSEN, LIZ JAMES, KURT-ULRICH JASCHKE, SARAH LAMBERT, JANET L. NELSON, JOHN C. PARSONS, KAREN PRATT, DION SMYTHE, PAULINE STAFFORD, MARY STROLL, VALERIE WALL, ELIZABETH WARD, DIANA WEBB.

Book Living Language in Kazakhstan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eva Marie Dubuisson
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2017-06-30
  • ISBN : 0822982838
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Living Language in Kazakhstan written by Eva Marie Dubuisson and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva-Marie Dubuisson provides a fascinating anthropological inquiry into the deeply ingrained presence of ancestors within the cultural, political, and spiritual discourse of Kazakhs. In a climate of authoritarianism and economic uncertainty, many people in this region turn to their forebearers for care, guidance, and advice, invoking them on a daily basis. This "living language" creates a powerful link to the past and a stable foundation for the present. Through Dubuisson's participatory, observational, and lived experience among Kazakhs, we witness firsthand the public performances and private rituals that show how memory and identity are sustained through an oral tradition of invoking ancestors. This ancestral dialogue sustains a unifying worldview by mediating questions of faith and morality, providing role models, and offering a mechanism for socio-political critique, change, and meaning-making. Looking beyond studies of Islam or heritage alone, Dubuisson provides fresh insights into understanding the Kazakh worldview that will serve students, researchers, GMOs, and policymakers in the region.

Book The Intolerant Middle Ages

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eugene Smelyansky
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2020-09-10
  • ISBN : 1487533349
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book The Intolerant Middle Ages written by Eugene Smelyansky and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of primary sources, Eugene Smelyansky highlights instances of persecution and violence, as well as those relatively rare but significant episodes of toleration, that impacted a broad spectrum of people who existed at the margins of medieval society: heretics, Jews and Muslims, the poor, the displaced and disabled, women, and those deemed sexually deviant. The volume also presents a more geographically diverse Middle Ages by including sources from Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Mediterranean. Each document is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by questions for discussion, making The Intolerant Middle Ages an excellent entrance into the lives and struggles of medieval minorities.

Book The Great Generation of Kazakhstan

Download or read book The Great Generation of Kazakhstan written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Kazakhstan from the Earliest Period to the Present time  Volume I

Download or read book The History of Kazakhstan from the Earliest Period to the Present time Volume I written by Zhanat Kundakbayeva and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-01-29 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of the History of Kazakhstan for the students of non-historical specialties has provided with extensive materials on the history of the present-day territory of Kazakhstan from the earliest period to 1991. Here found their reflection both recent developments on Kazakhstan history studies, primary sources evidences, teaching materials, control questions that help students understand better the course. Many of the disputable issues of the times are given in the historiographical view.The textbook is designed for students, teachers, undergraduates, and everybody, who is interested in the history of Kazakhstan.

Book Women in the Middle Ages  K Z

Download or read book Women in the Middle Ages K Z written by Katharina M. Wilson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The encyclopedia covers the myriad, experiences, and contributions of women in de medieval world.

Book Encyclopedia of Women   Islamic Cultures

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women Islamic Cultures written by Suad Joseph and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health is Volume III of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures. In almost 200 well written entries it covers the broad field of family, body, sexuality and health and Islamic cultures.

Book Apples Are from Kazakhstan

Download or read book Apples Are from Kazakhstan written by Christopher Robbins and published by Atlas and Company. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this funny and revealing travelogue of Kazakhstan--a blank in Westerners' collective geography--Robbins reveals the country to be diverse, tolerant, and surprisingly modern. A superlative addition to the literature of travel--"The Observer" (UK). Illustrated.