Women intellectuals and leaders in the Middle Ages / edited by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton.
Wide-ranging examination of women's achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture.
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from JSTOR |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Woodbridge, UK : D S Brewer, 2020. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontcover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Taking Early Women Intellectuals and Leaders Seriously
- Part I. Scholarship, Law, and Poetry: Jewish and Muslim Women
- Preface to Part I: Authorship and Intellectual Life: Jewish and Muslim Women
- 1 Gender, Scholarship, and the Construction of Authority in the Pre-Modern Muslim World
- 2 The Historiography of Absence: Preliminary Steps towards a New History of Andalusi Women Poets
- 3 Medieval Anglo-Jewish Women at Court
- Part II. Authorship, Intellectual Life, and the Professional Writer
- Preface to Part II: Intellectuals, Leaders, Doctores
- 4 Agnes of Harcourt as Intellectual: New Evidence for the Composition and Circulation of the Vie d'Isabelle de France
- 5 Catherine of Siena, Auctor
- 6 Christine de Pizan on the Jews, in Three Texts: The Heures de contemplation sur la Passion de Nostre Seigneur Jhesucrist, the Fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V, and the Mutacion de Fortune
- 7 Walking in Grandmothers' Footsteps: Mary Ward and the Medieval Spiritual and Intellectual Heritage
- Part III. Recovering Lost Women's Authorship
- Preface to Part III: Recovering Lost Women's Authorship: New Solutions to Old Problems
- 8 A Woman Author? The Middle Dutch Dialogue between a "Good-willed Layperson" and a "Master Eckhart"
- 9 Recovery and Loss: Women's Writing around Marie de France Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, with an Appendix by Ian Short
- 10 The Visions, Experiments, and Operations of Bridget of Autruy (fl. 1305-15)
- Part IV. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Gender, Patronage, and Power
- Preface to Part IV: Methodological Innovations for the Study of Women's Authorship and Agency
- 11 Written with her Own Hand: Perpetua's Representation of Non-Binary Gender in Old English Hagiography
- 12 The Materialization of Knowledge in Thirteenth-Century England: Joan Tateshal, Robert Grosseteste, and the Tateshal Miscellany
- 13 Networks of Influence: Widows, Sole Administration, and Unconventional Relationships in Thirteenth-Century London
- Part V. Religious Women in Leadership, Ministry, and Latin Ecclesiastical Culture
- Preface to Part V: Religious Women in Leadership, Ministry, and Latin Ecclesiastical Culture
- 14 Bede's Abbesses
- 15 Women's Latinity in the Early English Anchorhold
- 16 The Treatment of Ordination in Recent Scholarship on Religious Women in the Early Middle Ages
- 17 Saint Colette de Corbie (1381-1447): Reformist Leadership and Belated Sainthood
- 18 Women Priests at Barking Abbey in the Late Middle Ages
- Part VI. Out of the Shadows: Laywomen in Communal Leadership
- Preface to Part VI: Laywomen as Leaders