[PDF] Women In Medieval Society eBook

Author : Susan Mosher Stuard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 081220767X

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Early medieval women exercised public roles, rights, and responsibilities. Women contributed through their labor to the welfare of the community. Women played an important part in public affairs. They practiced birth control through abortion and infanticide. Women committed crimes and were indicted. They owned property and administered estates. The drive toward economic growth and expansion abroad rested on the capacity of women to staff and manage economic endeavors at home. In the later Middle Ages, the social position of women altered significantly, and the reasons why the role of women in society tended to become more restrictive are examined in these essays.

Author : Susan Mosher Stuard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 151280729X

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What was the status of women in the Middle Ages? How have women fared in the hands of historians? And, what is the current state of research about women in the Middle Ages? Susan Mosher Stuard addresses these questions in a collection of essays that delve in to the history and historiography of women in medieval England, France, Italy, and Germany. Contributors include Barbara Hanawalt, Diane Owen Hughes, Suzanne Wemple, Denise Kaiser, and Martha Howell. One of the most interesting observations made in Women in Medieval History and Historiography is the way in which the history of women in each country has followed a distinct course that is in rhythm with other concerns of national historical writing. Women in Medieval History and Historiography will interest historians, scholars of women's studies, and medievalists.

Author : Robert Edwards
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851153803

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Exploration of differences between women: good women who were absorbed into society, and those whose social role condemned them to its fringes.

Author : Avraham Grossman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1611683947

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The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women.

Author : Mary Erler
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0820323810

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Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority--violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of civic life through the exercise of law and force. The wives and consorts of these powerful men have generally been viewed as decorative attendants, while common women were presumed to have had no power or consequence. Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped such portrayals, Women and Power in the Middle Ages reveals the varied manifestations of female power in the medieval household and community--from the cultural power wielded by the wives of Venetian patriarchs to the economic power of English peasant women and the religious power of female saints. Among the specific topics addresses are Griselda's manipulation of silence as power in Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale"; the extensive networks of influence devised by Lady Honor Lisle; and the role of medieval women book owners as arbiters of lay piety and ambassadors of culture. In every case, the essays seek to transcend simple polarities of public and private, male and female, in order to provide a more realistic analysis of the workings of power in feudal society.

Author : David Herlihy
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571810243

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Until his untimely death in 1991, David Herlihy, Professor of History at Brown University, was one of the most prolific and best-known American historians of the European Middle Ages. Author of books on the history of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy, Herlihy published, in 1978, his best-known work in collaboration with Christine Klapisch-Zuber, Les Toscans et leurs familles (Translated into English in 1985, and Italian in 1988). For the last dozen or so years of his life, Herlihy launched a series of ambitious projects, on the history ofwomen and the family, and on the collective behavior of social groups in medieval Europe. While he completed two important books - on the family (1985) and on women's work (1991) - he did not find the time to bring these other major projects to a conclusion. This volume contains essays he wrote after 1978. They convey a sense of the enormous intellectual energy and great erudition that characterized David Herlihy's scholarly career. They also chart a remarkable historian's intellectual trajectory, as he searched for new and better ways of asking a set of simple and basic questions about the history of the family, the institution within which the vast majority of Europeans spent so much of their lives. Because of his qualities as a scholar and a teacher, during his relatively brief career Herlihy was honored with Presidencies of the four major scholarly associations with which he was affiliated: the Catholic Historical Association, the Medieval Academy of America, the Renaissance Society of America,and the American Historical Association.

Author : Helen M. Jewell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 9780719040177

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This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. It explores the physical spaces and mental attitudes that shaped lives, restructured society, and conditioned beliefs about the past and expectations for the future in the crucial German generations that formed the young Reich, fought the Great War, and experienced the Weimar Republic.Focusing on ordinary buildings and the way they shaped ordinary lives, this study shows how material space could influence the lives of citizens, from the ways the elderly slept at night to the economy of the city as a whole. It also shows how we integrate the spaces and places of our lives into our explanations of politics, culture and economics. It is aimed at those who want to understand urban modernity, Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany, the use of space in social policy and politics, and the design of cities.

Author : Frances Gies
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 9780064640374

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Correcting the omissions of traditional history, this is "a reliable survey of the real and varied roles played by women in the medieval period. . . . Highly recommended."--"Choice" Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Anna Roberts
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813063701

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This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal documents.