Women and Writing in Medieval Europe: a Sourcebook [1st ed] 0203358244, 0203266579, 0415106842, 0415106850, 9780203358245

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Women and Writing in Medieval Europe: a Sourcebook [1st ed]
 0203358244, 0203266579, 0415106842, 0415106850, 9780203358245

Table of contents :
BOOK COVER --
HALF-TITLE --
TITLE --
COPYRIGHT --
DEDICATION --
CONTENTS --
ILLUSTRATIONS --
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --
INTRODUCTION --
1 MARRIAGE --
INTRODUCTION --
Marriage as institution --
Making a marriage --
Marriage and property --
Widows and second marriages --
Being a wife --
1 THE GOOD WIVES --
2 THE MALMARIÉE --
(a) Marie de France's Laüstic --
(b) A malmariée song --
3 MARRIAGES IN ROMANCE --
4 A RASH WOOING: UNUSUAL EVENTS AT A WEDDING FEAST --
5 THE DISOBEDIENT WIFE --
6 A FORWARD YOUNG WOMAN --
7 DUTIES OF THE BOURGEOIS HOUSEWIFE --
8 CARING FOR A SICK HUSBAND --
9 A CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE --
Letter from Margaret Paston to John Paston II, 1469 c. 10 September --
2 LOVE, SEX AND FRIENDSHIP --
INTRODUCTION --
'Courtly love' --
Women as poets of 'courtly love' --
The 'code of courtly love' and Andreas Capellanus --
Pastoral --
Women and sex --
Friendship --
The romance and 'romance' --
1 AN EARLY WOMAN'S SONG --
2 SEXUAL PASSION RECALLED --
3 TWO LATER LOVE-LYRICS --
'Unter den Linden' --
4 THE TROBAIRITZ --
'Estat ai en greu cossirier' --
'Mout avetz faich long estatge' --
'Vos que.m semblatz dels corals amadors' --
5 ABOUT LOVE --
(a) What love is --
(b) Where love gets its name --
(c) What the effect of love is --
6 THE WRITING OF LOVE LETTERS --
(a) The commendation of women --
(b) An awkward situation --
7 LOVE BETWEEN WOMEN --
8 THE ARCHPRIEST OF HITA --
(a) The Archpriest and the Mooress --
(b) The Archpriest and the mountain girl --
9 IL DOLCE STIL NUOVO --
(a) Petrarch: Rime --
(b) Dante: from La Vita Nuova --
10 AN ALBA (DAWN-SONG) --
Parting at dawn (Y wawr) --
11 A WOMAN POET CELEBRATES THE FEMALE GENITALS --
The female genitals (Cywydd y cedor) --
12 THE DANGERS OF COURTLY LOVE --
13 A THWARTED AFFAIR --
14 A VALENTINE LETTER --
15 A SPANISH WOMAN POET --
Song by Florencía Pinar --
3 MOTHERHOOD AND WORK --
INTRODUCTION. Motherhood --
Work --
MOTHERS --
1 FREDEGUND AND RIGUNTH --
2 OLD ENGLISH PREGNANCY CHARMS --
3 TAKING IN AN ORPHAN CHILD --
4 TROBAIRITZ LYRIC ON CHILD-BEARING --
5 MOTHERS IN MONTAILLOU --
6 THE HORRORS OF MOTHERHOOD --
7 MARGERY AND HER CHILDREN --
8 ON THE MOTHERHOOD OF CHRIST --
WORK --
9 FREYDIS'S TRADING VENTURE --
10 WOMEN IN RETAIL --
11 MARGERY'S BUSINESS VENTURES --
12 THE DIVISION OF LABOUR --
4 WOMEN AND CHRISTIANITY --
INTRODUCTION --
Convents --
Recluses and anchoresses --
Beguines --
Heretic women --
Saints and mystics --
Secular women --
1 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ABBESS HILD --
2 THE NUN OF WATTON --
3 HILDEGARD'S VISION OF ECCLESIA, THE CHURCH --
Vision III: The Church, Bride of Christ and Mother of the Faithful --
4 RANNVEIG'S VISION --
5 THE WOMEN OF HELFTA --
(a) Mechthild of Magdeburg: The Flowing Light of the Divinity --
(b) Gertrude the Great: Exercises --
6 LETTERS OF SAINT CLARE OF ASSISI --
Third letter --
5 WOMEN AND POWER --
INTRODUCTION --
Definitions --
The early period --
Women and arms --
The later period --
1 FREDEGUND --
I How Fredegund brings about a separation between King Chilperic and his wife Audovera --
II The dysentery epidemic --
III The stepson --
IV The death of Chilperic --
V Widowhood --
VI Fredegund's battle strategy --
2 SIGRID THE STRONG-MINDED --
I Dealings with Harald of Grenland --
II Dealings with Olaf Tryggvason --
3 ANNA DALASSENA AND IMPERIAL POWER --
4 ALVILD THE PIRATE --
5 QUEEN PHILIPPA AND THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS --
6 A NOBLE LADY KNOWN TO CHRISTINE DE PIZAN --
7 THE WAY OF LIFE OF THE WISE PRINCESS --
8 JOAN OF ARC --
I Joan's letter to the English, Poitiers, 22 March 1429 --
II From the condemnation of Joan by the University of Paris in 1431 --
III Evidence of Isembard de la Pierre, an Augustine friar who was close to Joan in her final days, given to the 1452 inquiry. 6 EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE --
INTRODUCTION --
Formal learning --
Secular education --
Traditional knowledge --
Learning about women --
Women as teachers --
1 THE LEARNING OF ANGLO-SAXON NUNS --
(a) Aldhelm addresses the nuns of Barking at the beginning of De Virginitate --
(b) The young Leoba writes to Boniface (c. 732) --
(c) Boniface writes to Eadburga asking her to make him a copy of the Epistle of St Peter in letters of gold (c. 735) --
2 THE TEACHING OF GIRLS --
3 A WISE WOMAN PROPHESIES --
4 WOMEN'S PHYSIOLOGY --
On intercourse --
Conceiving male and female children --
The temperaments of women --
5 HÉLOISE AND ABÉLARD --
(a) Abélard's account of his affair with Héloise --
(b) Héloise's arguments against marriage for the philosopher --
6 WOMEN'S EDUCATION AND CHRISTINE'S OWN EXPERIENCE --
7 THE FOOLISHNESS OF FASHION --
8 SELLING ONE'S SOUL FOR KNOWLEDGE --
7 WOMEN AND THE ARTS --
INTRODUCTION --
Applied arts --
Painting --
Music --
Art and community --
Women writers/women authors --
1 THE FIRST WESTERN DRAMATIST: HROTSVIT'S DULCITIUS --
2 SOME NORSE WOMEN POETS --
(a) Jorunn skaldmey (the female poet) --
(b) Steinunn the poetess --
3 HILDEGARD AND MUSIC --
(a) Letter to the prelates of Mainz --
(b) Hildegard's lyrics --
4 MARIE DE FRANCE --
(a) Epilogue --
(b) The wolf and the sow --
5 THE POETRY OF HADEWIJCH --
(a) Poems in stanzas: 16 --
(b) Poems in stanzas: 28 --
(c) Poems in couplets: 13 --
6 ISOLDE AND HER MUSIC-MAKING --
7 AN EMBROIDERED PRAISE-SONG --
8 CHRISTINE AND THE PROBLEM OF REPRESENTATION --
(9a) Reading Mathéolus --
(b) Lady Reason accounts for misogynist writing --
9 BECOMING TEXTUAL: HOW MARGERY GOT HER BOOK WRITTEN --
BIBLIOGRAPHY --
INDEX.

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