Ambiguous Realities: Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Levin, Carole, Jeanie Watson and Carole Levine:

ISBN 10: 0814318738 / ISBN 13: 9780814318737

Published by Wayne State University Press 10.1987., 1987

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264 Seiten Fresh and clean hardcover copy. Frisches und sauberes Hardcover-Exemplar. Contents: I. Role adn Representation in Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts - Boccaccios In-Famous Women: Gender and Civic Virtue in the De mulieribus claris - Constance Jordan - Zenobia in Medieval and Renaissance Literature - Valerie Wayne - Heloise: Inquiry and the Sacra Pagina - Eileen Kearney - The Frivolities of Courtiers Follow the Footprints of Women: Public Women adn the Crisis of Virility in John of Salisbury - Cary J. Nederman and N. Elaine Lawsom - II: Rereadings of Medieval and Renaissance LIterary Texts - Domestic Treachery in teh Clerks Tale - Deborah S. Ellis - Enid the Disobedient: THe Mabonogians Gereint and Enid - Jeanie Watson - Communication Short-Circuited: Ambiguity and Motivation in teh Heptameron - Karen F. Wiley - reading Spensers Faerie Queen in a Different Voice - Shirley F. Staton - III. Role adn Representation in English Renaissance Texts - Presentations of Women in teh English Popular Press - Sara J. Eaton - The Feme Covert in Elizabeth Carys Mariam - Betty S. Travitsky - The myth of a Feminist Humanism: Thomas Salters The Mirrhor of Modestie - Janis Butler Holm - I Trust I may Not Trust THee - Womens Visions of the World in Shakespeares King John - Carole Levin - Recorder Fleetwood adn teh Tudor Queenship Controversy - Dennis Moore ISBN 9780814318737 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 395.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ambiguous Realities: Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press 10.1987.
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814318738
• ISBN 13: 9780814318737
• Binding: , Hardcover/Pappeinband
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 395 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The predominant cultural expectation for women in medieval and Renaissance Europe, as propagated and institutionalized by both the literate aristocracy and the medieval Church, was quite straightforward. The ideal woman was to be chaste and obedient, busy in the home and silent outside it. The Church provided two models for women: Mary, the Mother of God, and Eve, the temptress. The reality of women's lives, however, was richer and much more ambiguous. Women of all classes worked not only in the home but outside it as well. The further one reads the text of the time, the less uniformity one finds about the actual role of women.

Examining specific literary historical, and theological text, the essays in Ambiguous Realities illustrates a number of important issues about women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; the changes in attitude toward women, the role and status on women, the dichotomy between the public and private spheres, the prescriptions for women's behavior and the image of the ideal woman, and the difference between the perceived and the actual audience of medieval and Renaissance writers.

About the Author

Carole Levin is an associate professor of history at the State University of New York at New Patlz.

Jeanie Watson is associate dean of Arts and Sciences and an associate professor of English and Southwestern University.