Women in Christianity in the Medieval Age (eBook, PDF)

1000-1500
Redaktion: Kalas, Laura; Magnani, Roberta

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers a comprehensive introduction to and investigation of the multivocality of women's experience in the Middle Ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040193853
• Artikelnr.: 72276404

Autorenporträt

Laura Kalas is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University, UK. She is the author of Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life- Course (2020) and coeditor of Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe (2021). Her research focuses on medieval religious culture and especially writings by, and about, women, on medicine, materiality, and devotion. Roberta Magnani is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University, UK. Her research interests lie in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and late medieval manuscript culture with a specific focus on queer and trans theory. She has co-edited with Diane Watt a Special Issue of the journal postmedieval entitled 'Queer Manuscripts'.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Laura Kalas and Roberta Magnani
1 Theological Approaches to Women 1000-1550
Hazel Davis and Louise Nelstrop
2 Mary in the Middle Ages: A Woman for All Women
Sue Niebrzydowski
3 Saints' Lives: Bodies, Texts, and Readers in Medieval Lives of Female
Saints
Shari Horner
4 Embodying Medieval Holy Women: Science, Technology, and Medicine
Laura Kalas
5 Women as Educators in Medieval Europe: Learners, Teachers, Mentors
Deborah Youngs
6 Philosophical Views of Women
Nicole Wyatt
7 Women and Popular Beliefs
Hannah Skoda
8 Representations: The Image and Experience of Women in Medieval Christian
Art
Miriam Gill