Women's Lives: Self-Representation, Reception and Appropriation in the Middle Ages
- ISBN-10
- 1786838346
- ISBN-13
- 9781786838346
- Series
- Women's Lives
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 274
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-02-15
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press
- Authors
- Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, Daniel Armenti
Description
Women’s Lives presents essays on the ways in which the lives and voices of women permeated medieval literature and culture. The ubiquity of women amongst the medieval canon provides an opportunity for considering a different sphere of medieval culture and power that is frequently not given the attention it requires. The reception and use of female figures from this period has proven influential as subjects in literary, political, and social writings; the lives of medieval women may be read as models of positive transgression, and their representation and reception make powerful arguments for equality, agency and authority on behalf of the writers who employed them. The volume includes essays on well-known medieval women, such as Hildegard of Bingen and Teresa of Cartagena, as well as women less-known to scholars of the European Middle Ages, such as Al-Kāhina and Liang Hongyu. Each essay is directly related to the work of Elizabeth Petroff, a scholar of Medieval Women Mystics who helped recover texts written by medieval women.
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