The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures - 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 Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures write by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2012-02-13. The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and male - are heard. The study opens with an enquiry into violence against women, including in texts by male writers (Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach) which indeed describe instances of violence, but adopt an extremely critical stance towards them. It then proceeds to show how women were able to develop an independent identity in various genres and could present themselves as authorities in the public eye. Mystic texts by Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France and Margery Kempe, the medieval conduct poem known as Die Winsbeckin, the Devout Books of Sisters composed in convents in South-West Germany, but also quasi-historical documents such as the memoirs of Helene Kottaner or Anna Weckerin's cookery book, demonstrate that far more women were in the public gaze than had hitherto been assumed and that they possessed the self-confidence to establish their positions with their intellectual and their literary achievements.
Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and 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 Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England write by Susan Broomhall. This book was released on 2015-07-21. Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England. Authority is inherently relational it must be asserted over someone who allows or is forced to accept this dominance. The capacity to exercise authority is therefore a social and cultural act, one that is shaped by social identities such as gender and by social practices that include emotions. The contributions in this volume, exploring case studies of women and men's letter-writing, political and ecclesiastical governance, household rule, exercise of law and order, and creative agency, investigate how gender and emotions shaped the ways different individuals could assert or maintain authority, or indeed disrupt or provide alternatives to conventional practices of authority.
Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times - 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 Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times write by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2010-09-22. Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite popular opinions of the ‘dark Middle Ages’ and a ‘gloomy early modern age,’ many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be in which people laughed, and this from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. The contributions examine a wide gamut of significant cases of laughter in literary texts, historical documents, and art works where laughter determined the relationship among people. In fact, laughter emerges as a kaleidoscopic phenomenon reflecting divine joy, bitter hatred and contempt, satirical perspectives and parodic intentions. In some examples protagonists laughed out of sheer happiness and delight, in others because they felt anxiety and insecurity. It is much more difficult to detect premodern sculptures of laughing figures, but they also existed. Laughter reflected a variety of concerns, interests, and intentions, and the collective approach in this volume to laughter in the past opens many new windows to the history of mentality, social and religious conditions, gender relationships, and power structures.
Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times - 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 Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times write by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2008-12-10. Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insights into fundamental aspects of medieval and early-modern culture. This interdisciplinary volume with articles written by social historians, literary historians, musicologists, art historians, and historians of religion and mental-ity demonstrates how fruitful collaborative efforts can be in the exploration of essential features of human society. Practically every aspect of culture both in the Middle Ages and the early modern age was influenced and determined by sexuality, which hardly ever surfaces simply characterized by prurient interests. The treatment of sexuality in literature, chronicles, music, art, legal documents, and in scientific texts illuminates central concerns, anxieties, tensions, needs, fears, and problems in human society throughout times.
Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age - 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 Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age write by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2011-03-29. Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although it seems that erotic love generally was the prevailing topic in the medieval world and the Early Modern Age, parallel to this the Ciceronian ideal of friendship also dominated the public discourse, as this collection of essays demonstrates. Following an extensive introduction, the individual contributions explore the functions and the character of friendship from Late Antiquity (Augustine) to the 17th century. They show the spectrum of variety in which this topic appeared ‐ not only in literature, but also in politics and even in painting.
