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Book Women of the Twelfth Century  Remembering the Dead

Download or read book Women of the Twelfth Century Remembering the Dead written by Georges Duby and published by Polity. This book was released on 1998-01-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, one of the greatest medieval historians of our time continues his rich and illuminating enquiry into the lives of twelfth-century women. Georges Duby bases his account here on a twelfth-century genre which commemorated the virtues of noblewomen who had died, and the roles they had played in the history of their lineage. From these genealogical works a vivid picture emerges of the lives these women led, the values they held, and the way in which they were viewed by the priest and knights who wrote about them. The first section outlines the way in which the dead, and the memory and tales of the dead, served to bond noble society in the twelfth century. The second draws on the Gesta, written by Dudo of Saint Quentin, and reflects on what it tells us about the roles ascribed to wives and concubines and women, in war and in power. The third and final section reconstructs women as wives, mothers and widows through the work of Lambert, Priest of Ardres. This book is part of a three-volume work on women in the Middle Ages. It will be of great interest to students and researchers in medieval history, social history and women's history.

Book Women of the Twelfth Century  Volume 2

Download or read book Women of the Twelfth Century Volume 2 written by Georges Duby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, one of the greatest medieval historians of our time continues his rich and illuminating inquiry into the lives of twelfth-century women. Georges Duby bases his account on a twelfth-century genre that commemorated the virtues of noblewomen who had died and the roles they came to play in the history of their lineage. From these genealogical works a vivid picture emerges of the lives these women led, the values they held, and the way in which they were viewed by the ecclesiastical and chivalric writers who immortalized them. The first section outlines the ways in which the dead—in both memory and legend—served to bond noble society in the twelfth century. Drawing on the Gesta by Dudo of Saint Quentin, the second section reflects on the roles that wives, concubines, and other women played during times of war and in the great exchanges of power that established the grand lineages of the Middle Ages. The third section reconstructs women as wives, mothers, and widows through the work of Lambert, Priest of Ardres.

Book Women of the Twelfth Century  Volume 2

Download or read book Women of the Twelfth Century Volume 2 written by Georges Duby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, one of the greatest medieval historians of our time continues his rich and illuminating inquiry into the lives of twelfth-century women. Georges Duby bases his account on a twelfth-century genre that commemorated the virtues of noblewomen who had died and the roles they came to play in the history of their lineage. From these genealogical works a vivid picture emerges of the lives these women led, the values they held, and the way in which they were viewed by the ecclesiastical and chivalric writers who immortalized them. The first section outlines the ways in which the dead—in both memory and legend—served to bond noble society in the twelfth century. Drawing on the Gesta by Dudo of Saint Quentin, the second section reflects on the roles that wives, concubines, and other women played during times of war and in the great exchanges of power that established the grand lineages of the Middle Ages. The third section reconstructs women as wives, mothers, and widows through the work of Lambert, Priest of Ardres.

Book Women of the Twelfth Century

Download or read book Women of the Twelfth Century written by Georges Duby and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women of the Twelfth Century

Download or read book Women of the Twelfth Century written by Georges Duby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Queens  Concubines  and Dowagers

Download or read book Queens Concubines and Dowagers written by Pauline Stafford and published by Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Holy Women of Twelfth century England

Download or read book Holy Women of Twelfth century England written by Sharon K. Elkins and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire

Download or read book Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire written by Anne F. Broadbridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did women contribute to the rise of the Mongol Empire while Mongol men were conquering Eurasia? This book positions women in their rightful place in the otherwise well-known story of Chinggis Khan (commonly known as Genghis Khan) and his conquests and empire. Examining the best known women of Mongol society, such as Chinggis Khan's mother, Hö'elün, and senior wife, Börte, as well as those who were less famous but equally influential, including his daughters and his conquered wives, we see the systematic and essential participation of women in empire, politics and war. Anne F. Broadbridge also proposes a new vision of Chinggis Khan's well-known atomized army by situating his daughters and their husbands at the heart of his army reforms, looks at women's key roles in Mongol politics and succession, and charts the ways the descendants of Chinggis Khan's daughters dominated the Khanates that emerged after the breakup of the Empire in the 1260s.

Book The Mystery of the House of Royal Women

Download or read book The Mystery of the House of Royal Women written by Tal Davidovich and published by Uppsala Universitet. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Visions   Longings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Monica Furlong
  • Publisher : Burns & Oates
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780264673851
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Visions Longings written by Monica Furlong and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of women's writings drawn from the 12th century to the 14th century, this collection includes letters, hymns, practical advice, rules for nuns, accounts of visions and revelations, prayers, dialogues and autobiographical writings. Each woman mystic is introduced separately, and the diverse material shows both the intelligence, originality and profound devotion of the women authors, and how their position as women affected their work.

Book Eve and the Church

Download or read book Eve and the Church written by Georges Duby and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Lady s Tumbler

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  • Author :
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  • Release : 1904
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Our Lady s Tumbler written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Holy Women of Twelfth Century England

Download or read book Holy Women of Twelfth Century England written by Sharon K. Elkins and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Woman  Church and State

Download or read book Woman Church and State written by Matilda Joslyn Gage and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clean Maids  True Wives  Steadfast Widows

Download or read book Clean Maids True Wives Steadfast Widows written by Margaret Hallissy and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer was a keen observer of the lives of women with a remarkable ability to see beyond his culture's preconceptions concerning their proper roles. The lives of medieval women were divided into three estates--virginity, wifehood, and widowhood--each with complex rules extending to particulars of speech and dress, but all directed toward the single purpose of preserving female chastity, for which a woman was to be prepared to suffer or even die. Margaret Hallissy's lively and literate study traces Chaucer's female characterizations against a background of medieval rules and common assumptions governing women to determine where he adhered to or departed from the behavioral norms. She concludes that he discounted much of these codes of conduct as being detrimental to the development of a full human person. The Wife of Bath, Chaucer's most drastic deviation from the received wisdom about women of his day, could only have been developed by an author/narrator who turned from the prescribed written rules--which, sacred or secular, were all instruments of patriarchal power--to female discourse and action. Applying insights from the works of modern social historians of the Middle Ages and ranging widely in sources from the visual arts, civil and canon law, homiletics, theology, architecture, fashion history, and medicine, Hallissy illuminates the preconceptions with which Chaucer's original audience would have encountered his work and brings her findings to bear on a close analysis of literary characters in the text. The resulting study provides an original and essential dimension for reading Chaucer, while its feminist-historicist approach broadens the audience to those interested in medieval studies and women's studies in general.