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THE POWER OF A WOMAN'S VOICE IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURES
NEW APPROACHES TO GERMAN AND EUROPEAN WOMEN WRITERS AND TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN PREMODERN TIMES |
| By: |
Albrecht Classen |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£118.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3110199416 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783110199413 |
| Publisher: |
DE GRUYTER |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2007 |
| Series: |
Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 1 |
| Pages: |
453 |
| Description: |
Wenngleich bisher die Stellung der Frau im Mittelalter und der Fruhneuzeit uberwiegend als von Unterdruckung bestimmt beschrieben worden ist, erlaubt eine kritische Analyse von Texten, die von Frauen geschrieben worden sind, und von Texten, in denen mannliche Autoren sich uber Frauen ausserten, zu wichtigen neuen Einsichten zu gelangen. |
| Synopsis: |
The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and male - are heard. The study opens with an enquiry into violence against women, including in texts by male writers (Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach) which indeed describe instances of violence, but adopt an extremely critical stance towards them. It then proceeds to show how women were able to develop an independent identity in various genres and could present themselves as authorities in the public eye.Mystic texts by Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France and Margery Kempe, the medieval conduct poem known as Die Winsbeckin, the Devout Books of Sisters composed in convents in South-West Germany, but also quasi-historical documents such as the memoirs of Helene Kottaner or Anna Weckerin's cookery book, demonstrate that far more women were in the public gaze than had hitherto been assumed and that they possessed the self-confidence to establish their positions with their intellectual and their literary achievements. |
| US Grade: |
College Graduate Student |
| Publication: |
Germany |
| Imprint: |
Walter de Gruyter & Co |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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