The Resource Minding the body : women and literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500, Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt
Minding the body : women and literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500, Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt
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- Summary
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- "Warrior queens, courtly lovers, monstrous sinners, divine goddesses, tortured martyrs, beguiling sorceresses, ecstatic visionaries, victims of rape: these are just a few of the roles women often played in medieval literature, and sometimes in medieval life. In Minding the Body, Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt explore the complex relationship between medieval literature and reality, and consider the extent to which legend imitated life. Female characters are less often portraits of actual women, the authors explain, than representations of medieval cultures idea of an abstract "feminine." Potkay and Evitt study the medieval feminine as defined by both male and female authors, with special attention to Marie de France, Geoffrey Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe." "This is a balanced account: Potkay and Evitt outline how deeply entrenched misogyny was in medieval society, while they examine the opportunities open to women in religious and secular life. With solid scholarship and lively prose, the authors succeed in uncovering both the perceptions and realities of female life in medieval Europe. This inclusive survey of current medieval scholarship has the non-specialist in mind, and the authors' forthright and engaging tone will enliven readers' encounters with this dynamic area of study. In addition, as the first comprehensive analysis of the role of gender in major texts written by both men and women in medieval England, this study will be of value to experts in the field of medieval studies."--Jacket
- "Warrior queens, courtly lovers, monstrous sinners, divine goddesses, tortured martyrs, beguiling sorceresses, ecstatic visionaries, victims of rape: these are just a few of the roles women often played in medieval literature, and sometimes in medieval life. In Minding the Body, Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt explore the complex relationship between medieval literature and reality, and consider the extent to which legend imitated life. Female characters are less often portraits of actual women, the authors explain, than representations of medieval cultures idea of an abstract "feminine." Potkay and Evitt study the medieval feminine as defined by both male and female authors, with special attention to Marie de France, Geoffrey Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe." "This is a balanced account: Potkay and Evitt outline how deeply entrenched misogyny was in medieval society, while they examine the opportunities open to women in religious and secular life. With solid scholarship and lively prose, the authors succeed in uncovering both the perceptions and realities of female life in medieval Europe. This inclusive survey of current medieval scholarship has the non-specialist in mind, and the authors' forthright and engaging tone will enliven readers' encounters with this dynamic area of study. In addition, as the first comprehensive analysis of the role of gender in major texts written by both men and women in medieval England, this study will be of value to experts in the field of medieval studies."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 238 pages
- Contents
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- Body and soul: religious constructions of female authorship
- Redeeming ornament: women in Old English literature
- Mirror and window: The courtly lady in Provençal ; Love poetry and English Marian hymns
- Love and marriage: women in the family romance
- When Echo speaks: Marie de France and the poetics of remembrance
- Body broken, body whole: eucharistic devotion, Fabliaux, and the feminine impulse of the Corpus Christi drama
- The female speaker in dream vision: the problem of (women's) language
- Chaucer, rape, and the poetic powers of ventriloquism
- Revaluing the female body, reconceiving motherhood: mysticism and the maternal in Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
- Beyond the Middle Ages and outside the canon
- Chronology
- Isbn
- 9780805789812
- Label
- Minding the body : women and literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500
- Title
- Minding the body
- Title remainder
- women and literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500
- Statement of responsibility
- Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt
- Subject
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
- English literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- History
- Human body in literature
- Literature, Medieval -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Women -- Great Britain -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
- Women in literature
- Civilization, Medieval, in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "Warrior queens, courtly lovers, monstrous sinners, divine goddesses, tortured martyrs, beguiling sorceresses, ecstatic visionaries, victims of rape: these are just a few of the roles women often played in medieval literature, and sometimes in medieval life. In Minding the Body, Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt explore the complex relationship between medieval literature and reality, and consider the extent to which legend imitated life. Female characters are less often portraits of actual women, the authors explain, than representations of medieval cultures idea of an abstract "feminine." Potkay and Evitt study the medieval feminine as defined by both male and female authors, with special attention to Marie de France, Geoffrey Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe." "This is a balanced account: Potkay and Evitt outline how deeply entrenched misogyny was in medieval society, while they examine the opportunities open to women in religious and secular life. With solid scholarship and lively prose, the authors succeed in uncovering both the perceptions and realities of female life in medieval Europe. This inclusive survey of current medieval scholarship has the non-specialist in mind, and the authors' forthright and engaging tone will enliven readers' encounters with this dynamic area of study. In addition, as the first comprehensive analysis of the role of gender in major texts written by both men and women in medieval England, this study will be of value to experts in the field of medieval studies."--Jacket
- "Warrior queens, courtly lovers, monstrous sinners, divine goddesses, tortured martyrs, beguiling sorceresses, ecstatic visionaries, victims of rape: these are just a few of the roles women often played in medieval literature, and sometimes in medieval life. In Minding the Body, Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt explore the complex relationship between medieval literature and reality, and consider the extent to which legend imitated life. Female characters are less often portraits of actual women, the authors explain, than representations of medieval cultures idea of an abstract "feminine." Potkay and Evitt study the medieval feminine as defined by both male and female authors, with special attention to Marie de France, Geoffrey Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe." "This is a balanced account: Potkay and Evitt outline how deeply entrenched misogyny was in medieval society, while they examine the opportunities open to women in religious and secular life. With solid scholarship and lively prose, the authors succeed in uncovering both the perceptions and realities of female life in medieval Europe. This inclusive survey of current medieval scholarship has the non-specialist in mind, and the authors' forthright and engaging tone will enliven readers' encounters with this dynamic area of study. In addition, as the first comprehensive analysis of the role of gender in major texts written by both men and women in medieval England, this study will be of value to experts in the field of medieval studies."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Potkay, Monica Brzezinski
- Dewey number
- 820.9/9287/0902
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR113
- LC item number
- .P68 1997
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Evitt, Regula Meyer
- Series statement
- Twayne's women and literature series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English literature
- English literature
- English literature
- Literature, Medieval
- Women and literature
- Women
- Civilization, Medieval, in literature
- Human body in literature
- Women in literature
- English literature
- English literature
- English literature
- Literature, Medieval
- Women and literature
- Women
- Civilization, Medieval, in literature
- Human body in literature
- Women in literature
- Women and literature
- Label
- Minding the body : women and literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500, Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-230) and index
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- Contents
- Body and soul: religious constructions of female authorship -- Redeeming ornament: women in Old English literature -- Mirror and window: The courtly lady in Provençal ; Love poetry and English Marian hymns -- Love and marriage: women in the family romance -- When Echo speaks: Marie de France and the poetics of remembrance -- Body broken, body whole: eucharistic devotion, Fabliaux, and the feminine impulse of the Corpus Christi drama -- The female speaker in dream vision: the problem of (women's) language -- Chaucer, rape, and the poetic powers of ventriloquism -- Revaluing the female body, reconceiving motherhood: mysticism and the maternal in Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe -- Beyond the Middle Ages and outside the canon -- Chronology
- Control code
- 35331289
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 238 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805789812
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 96036468
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Minding the body : women and literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500, Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-230) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Body and soul: religious constructions of female authorship -- Redeeming ornament: women in Old English literature -- Mirror and window: The courtly lady in Provençal ; Love poetry and English Marian hymns -- Love and marriage: women in the family romance -- When Echo speaks: Marie de France and the poetics of remembrance -- Body broken, body whole: eucharistic devotion, Fabliaux, and the feminine impulse of the Corpus Christi drama -- The female speaker in dream vision: the problem of (women's) language -- Chaucer, rape, and the poetic powers of ventriloquism -- Revaluing the female body, reconceiving motherhood: mysticism and the maternal in Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe -- Beyond the Middle Ages and outside the canon -- Chronology
- Control code
- 35331289
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 238 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805789812
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 96036468
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
- English literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- History
- Human body in literature
- Literature, Medieval -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Women -- Great Britain -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
- Women in literature
- Civilization, Medieval, in literature
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