Power of the Weak: STUDIES ON MEDIEVAL WOMEN - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252065042 ISBN 13: 9780252065040

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1995

Synopsis

   Covering the eleventh through
        sixteenth centuries, these essays suggest that influence and power may
        have paradoxically been available to women despite, and sometimes precisely
        because of, their subordinate position in society. Striking for its range
        of scholarship, this collection explores the power and independence, relationships
        and influence of medieval queens, holy women, mothers, widows, Jewish
        conversas, and others. Latin and Anglo-Norman hagiography, confessors'
        manuals, coronation rituals, responsa literature, and legal theory
        are represented.
      "An intriguing exploration
        of a basic paradox of medieval society, and an excellent blend of theory
        and gender studies with detailed work relevant for social and political
        history." -- Joel Rosenthal, author of Patriarchy and Families
        of Privilege in Fifteenth-Century England
      JENNIFER CARPENTER
        is a lecturer in history at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
 

About this title

About the Author

Sally-Beth MacLean is Associate Director and Executive Editor of the Records of Early English Drama.

Review

"An intriguing exploration of a basic paradox of medieval society, and an excellent blend of theory and gender studies with detailed work relevant for social and political history." -- Joel Rosenthal, author of Patriarchy and Families of Privilege in Fifteenth-Century England

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0252065042
• ISBN 13: 9780252065040
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Carpenter Jennifer, MacLean Sally-Beth