Description: Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages by Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Professor Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, John Van Engen, Ruth Karras, Asma Afsaruddin, S.J. Pearce, Adrienne Williams Boyarin, David Wallace, Sean L. Field Wide-ranging examination of womens achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Wide-ranging examination of womens achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture.Medieval women were normally denied access to public educational institutions, and so also denied the gateways to most leadership positions. Modern scholars have therefore tended to study learned medieval women as simply anomalies, and women generally as victims. This volume, however, argues instead for a via media. Drawing upon manuscript and archival sources, scholars here show that more medieval women attained some form of learning than hitherto imagined, and that women with such legal, social or ecclesiastical knowledge also often exercised professional or communal leadership.Bringing together contributors from the disciplines of literature, history and religion, this volume challenges several traditional views: firstly, the still-prevalent idea that womens intellectual accomplishments were limited to the Latin literate. The collection therefore engages heavily with vernacular writings (in Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, French, Dutch, German and Italian), and also with material culture (manuscript illumination, stained glass, fabric and jewelry) for evidence of womens advanced capabilities. But in doing so, the contributors strive to avoid the equally problematic view that womens accomplishments were somehow limited to the vernacular and the material. So several essays examine women at work with the sacred languages of the three Abrahamic traditions (Latin, Arabic and Hebrew). And a third traditional view is also interrogated: that women were somehow more "original" for their lack of learning and and dependence on their mother tongue. Scholars here agree wholeheartedly that women could be daring thinkers in any language; they engage readily with womens learnedness wherever it can be found. Author Biography KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON is Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame. KATIEANN-MARIE BUGYIS is Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame. JOHN VAN ENGEN is Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame. KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON is Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame. JOHN VAN ENGEN is Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame. NICHOLAS WATSON teaches English at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval English and North European literature, intellectual history, visionary writing and the role of the written vernacular. AMANDA BOHNE is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. RACHEL KOOPMANS is a historian of medieval religion, hagiography, and material culture who specialises in the cult of Thomas Becket and the stained glass of Canterbury Cathedral. She teaches history at York University in Toronto, Canada. Table of Contents "Taking Early Women Intellectuals and Leaders Seriously" - Kathryn Kerby-Fulton"Authorship and Intellectual Life: Jewish and Muslim Women" - Ruth Karras"Gender, Scholarship, and the Construction of Authority in the Pre-Modern Muslim World" - Asma Afsaruddin"The Historiography of Absence: Preliminary Steps Towards a New History of Andalusi Women Poets" - S.J. Pearce"Medieval Anglo-Jewish Women at Court" - Adrienne Williams Boyarin"Intellectuals, Leaders, Doctores" - David Wallace"Agnes of Harcourt as Intellectual: New Evidence for the Composition and Circulation of the Vie dIsabelle de France" - Sean L. Field"Catherine of Siena, Auctor" - F Thomas Luongo"Christine de Pizan on the Jews, in Three Texts: The Heures de contemplation sur la Passion de Nostre Seigneur Jhesucrist, the Fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V, and the Mutacion de Fortune" - Thelma Fenster"Walking in Grandmothers Footsteps: Mary Ward and the Medieval Spiritual and Intellectual Heritage" - Gemma C.J. Simmonds"New Solutions to Old Problems" - Kathryn Kerby-Fulton"A Woman Author? The Middle-Dutch Dialogue between a Good-willed Layperson and a Master Eckhart" - John Van Engen"Recovery and Loss: Womens Writing around Marie de France" - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne"The Visions, Experiments, and Operations of Bridget of Autruy (fl. 1305-15)" - Nicholas Watson"Methodological Innovations for the Study of Womens Authorship and Agency" - Nicholas Watson"Written with Her Own Hand: Perpetuas Representation of Non-Binary Gender in Old English Hagiography" - Leanne MacDonald"The Materialization of Knowledge in Thirteenth-Century England: Joan Tateshal, Robert Grosseteste, and the Tateshal Miscellany" - Anna Siebach-Larson"Networks of Influence: Widows, Sole Administration, and Unconventional Relationships in Thirteenth-Century London" - Amanda Bohne"Religious Women in Leadership, Ministry, and Latin Ecclesiastical Culture" - John Van Engen"Bedes Abbesses" - Sarah Foot"Womens Latinity in the Early English Anchorhold" - Megan J. Hall"The Treatment of Ordination in Recent Scholarship on Religious Women in the Early Middle Ages" - Gary Macy"Saint Colette de Corbie (1381-1447): Reformist Leadership and Belated Sainthood" - Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski"Women Priests at Barking Abbey in the Late Middle Ages" - K.A. Bugyis"Laywomen as Leaders" - Dyan Elliott"Women Donors and Ecclesiastical Reform: Evidence from Camaldoli and Vallombrosa, c. 1000-1150" - Maureen C. Miller"Laywomens Leadership in Medieval Miracle Cults: Evidence from Britain, ca. 1150-1250" - Rachel Koopmans"Mechthild of Magdeburg at Helfta: A Study in Literary Influence" - Barbara Newman"Positioning Women in Medieval Society, Culture, and Religion: An Epilogue" - John Van Engen Review A revelation... Truly this book opened up vistas with new perspectives and possibilities for me. I recommend it highly. * STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEACHING (SMART) *The team of scholars who pulled this collection together have rendered us a great service. . . . Each contributor is a gifted and concise writer. Younger scholars will find much here to expand their own research and thinking; so will graduate students in many fields. The book is especially valuable in its modeling of effective collaboration among interdisciplinary fields. * Magistra *Offers a great variety of places, times and people, and encourages us to adopt new angles of view. It offers us a new perspective, in search of figures of women authors, thinkers, intellectuals. It is now impossible to claim that women did not participate in the cultural and intellectual environment of the Middle Ages. * CAHIERS DE CIVILISATION MÉDIÉVALE *The readers will find it helpful to have the introductory sections focus on the wider methodological framework and scholarship for each of the approaches taken, while the didactic setup makes this book an ideal tool for teaching purposes. The overall introduction and epilogue are superb in setting the scene, warning of pitfalls, and identifying new avenues of research. Above all, they remind the reader that the women discussed in this volume constitute probably only the tip of an iceberg and for this reason they encourage us to continue digging in archives and libraries to identify more of them. * Church History *Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages is an impressive volume of essays that ranges across academic disciplines, countries, time periods, and sources in order to contribute to key debates about womens history and role in intellectual life throughout the medieval period. The editors, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, and John Van Engen, set out to "tak[e] early women intellectuals and leaders seriously," as the title of Kerby-Fultons introduction puts it, and in this aim it absolutely succeeds. * Journal of British Studies *Die Aktualität des Bandes resultiert aus der VerknÜpfung von Bildung und Gelehrsamkeit ma. Frauen mit der Frage nach weiblicher agency und Handlungsfeldern, die auf Patronage, Leitungskompetenz und kirchliche Funktionen sowie FÜhrungsfunktionen in weltlichen Kontexten ausgerichtet sind.(The relevance of this volume lies in its connection of medieval womens education and scholarship with questions of female agency and spheres of activity, focusing on patronage, leadership skills, and ecclesiastical roles, as well as leadership functions in secular contexts.) * DEUTSCHEN ARCHIV * Review Quote Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages is an impressive volume of essays that ranges across academic disciplines, countries, time periods, and sources in order to contribute to key debates about womens history and role in intellectual life throughout the medieval period. The editors, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, and John Van Engen, set out to "tak[e] early women intellectuals and leaders seriously," as the title of Kerby-Fultons introduction puts it, and in this aim it absolutely succeeds. Details ISBN1843846764 Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1843846764 ISBN-13 9781843846765 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-11-22 DEWEY 305.40902 Pages 438 Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint D.S. Brewer Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2022-11-22 NZ Release Date 2022-11-22 UK Release Date 2022-11-22 Illustrations 15 b/w illus. Author Sean L. Field Edited by John Van Engen Audience Professional & Vocational Alternative 9781843845553 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161842199;
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