Medieval Gentlewoman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Gentlewoman write by Ffiona Swabey. This book was released on 1999. Medieval Gentlewoman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Through an examination of Alice's "Household Book," and using other extant contemporary sources, the author has been able to illuminate the experiences of medieval women in general. The resulting work provides a vivid picture of life in the medieval household, examining marriage and widowhood, daily household and estate management, hospitality and entertainment, education, patronage, religious concerns and the private and public roles of medieval women of the estate-owning class."--BOOK JACKET.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing write by Carolyn Dinshaw. This book was released on 2003-05-22. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.
Life in a Medieval Gentry Household
Life in a Medieval Gentry Household - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life in a Medieval Gentry Household write by ffiona von Westhoven Perigrinor. This book was released on 2021-11-25. Life in a Medieval Gentry Household available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Middle Ages the household was such a fundamental part of the social structure that the post-1350 era has been termed ‘the Age of the Household.’ Academic studies have generally focused on the grand, itinerant households of the wealthy aristocracy, illuminating the lifestyles and pastimes of this elite class. Using the household accounts of Alice de Bryene, a widowed gentlewoman, together with bailiffs’ and stewards’ reports from her home in Suffolk and other estates further afield, this richly detailed study paints a vivid portrait of the lives of ordinary people in the medieval countryside, of festivals and feast days, marriage and monuments, family loyalties and betrayals, life and death, the rhythms of the working day and year, and the changing scene in the wider world beyond the household. [Originally published in 1999 by Sutton Publishing Limited (UK) and Routledge Kegan Paul (USA) as Medieval Gentlewoman: Life in a Widow’s Household in the Later Middle Ages by ffiona Swabey.]
Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts
Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts write by Dee Dyas. This book was released on 2005. Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays suggesting new ways of studying the crucial but sometimes difficult range of medieval mystical material. This volume seeks to explore the origins, context and content of the anchoritic and mystical texts produced in England during the Middle Ages and to examine the ways in which these texts may be studied and taught today. It foregrounds issues of context and interaction, seeking both to position medieval spiritual writings against a surprisingly wide range of contemporary contexts and to face the challenge of making these texts accessible to a wider readership. The contributions, by leading scholars in the field, incorporate historical, literary and theological perspectives and offer critical approaches and background material which will inform both research and teaching. The approaches to Middle English anchoritic and mystical texts suggested in this volume are many and varied. In this they reflect the richness and complexity of the contexts from which these writings emerged. These essays are offered aspart of an ongoing exploration of aspects of medieval spirituality which, while posing a considerable challenge to modern readers, also offer invaluable insights into the interaction between medieval culture and belief. Contributors: E.A. Jones, Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden, Santha Bhattachariji, Denis Renevey, A.C. Spearing, Thomas Bestul, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Barry A. Windeatt, Alexandra Barratt, R.S. Allen, Roger Ellis, Ann M. Hutchison, Marion Glasscoe, Catherine Innes-Parker
Hedonizing Technologies
Hedonizing Technologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hedonizing Technologies write by Rachel Maines. This book was released on 2009-06-09. Hedonizing Technologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact.
