Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages - 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 Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages write by Kathleen Coyne Kelly. This book was released on 2002-11-01. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the representation of both male and female virgins in saints' legends and romances. The author also makes a comparative study of examples from contemporary fiction, television and film in which testing virginity is a theme. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages presents a compelling and provocative study of the parodox of bodily and spiritual integrity as both presence and absence.
Misconceptions About the Middle Ages
Misconceptions About the Middle Ages - 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 Misconceptions About the Middle Ages write by Stephen Harris. This book was released on 2010-05-26. Misconceptions About the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brought together by an impressive, international array of contributors this book presents a representative study of some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period.
Medieval Virginities
Medieval Virginities - 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 Virginities write by Ruth Evans. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Medieval Virginities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The variety of subjects and disciplines represented here testify both to the elusiveness of virginity and to its lasting appeal and importance. Medieval Virginities shows how virginity's inherent ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies.
Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England
Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England - 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 Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England write by Kathryn M. Moncrief. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance features essays questioning the extent to which education, an activity pursued in the home, classroom, and the church, led to, mirrored, and was perhaps even transformed by moments of instruction on stage. This volume argues that along with the popular press, the early modern stage is also a key pedagogical site and that education”performed and performative”plays a central role in gender construction. The wealth of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century printed and manuscript documents devoted to education (parenting guides, conduct books, domestic manuals, catechisms, diaries, and autobiographical writings) encourages examination of how education contributed to the formation of gendered and hierarchical structures, as well as the production, reproduction, and performance of masculinity and femininity. In examining both dramatic and non-dramatic texts via aspects of performance theory, this collection explores the ways education instilled formal academic knowledge, but also elucidates how educational practices disciplined students as members of their social realm, citizens of a nation, and representatives of their gender.
Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance - 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 Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance write by Amy Burge. This book was released on 2017-02-14. Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.
