Middle-Aged Women in the Middle Ages

Herausgeber: Niebrzydowski, Sue

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

New research into medieval women from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period demonstrates their energy, defiance and wit.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 165mm x 241mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781843842828
• ISBN-10: 1843842823
• Artikelnr.: 33321165

Autorenporträt

Sue Niebrzydowski

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'Becoming bene
straw': The Middle
aged Woman in the Middle Ages
Sue Niebrzydowski The Age of Discretion: Women at Forty and Beyond
Anneke B. Mulder
Bakker Seeking the Middle
Aged Woman in Medieval Wales
Sara Elin Roberts Middle Age in Romance? Magic, Enchantment and Female Power
Corinne Saunders Age and Desire in the Old English Life of Mary of Egypt: A Queerer Time and Place?
Diane Watt Age and Desire in the Old English Life of Mary of Egypt: A Queerer Time and Place?
Clare Lees The St Albans Psalter: Sex, Desire and the Middle
aged Woman
Jane Geddes Speaking Volumes: the Middle Aged Woman and the Book in Medieval England
Carol Meale 'Late hir seye what sche wyl': Older Women's Speech and the Book of Margery Kempe
Sue Niebrzydowski Preparing for Mature Years: the Case of Margaret of Anjou and her Books
Raluca Radulescu Bibliography