Women Medievalists and the Academy - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299207501 ISBN 13: 9780299207502

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005

Synopsis

Long overlooked in standard reference works, pioneering women medievalists finally receive their due in Women Medievalists and the Academy. This comprehensive edited volume brings to life a diverse collection of inspiring figures through memoirs, biographical essays, and interviews. Covering many different nationalities and academic disciplines—including literature, philology, history, archaeology, art history, theology or religious studies, and philosophy—each essay delves into one woman's life, intellectual contributions, and efforts to succeed in a male-dominated field. Together, these extraordinary personal histories constitute a new standard reference that speaks to a growing interest in women's roles in the development of scholarship and the academy.

The collection begins in the eighteenth century with Elizabeth Elstob and continues through to the present day, and includes—among more than seventy profiles—such important figures as Anna Jameson, Lina Eckenstein, Georgiana Goddard King, Eileen [Edna Le Poer] Power, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Whitelock, Susan Mosher Stuard, Marcia Colish, and Caroline Walker Bynum, among others.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Pioneering. . . . An important and timely collection that profiles the lives and professional careers of women medievalists in the last two centuries."—Maureen Mazzaoui. University of Wisconsin—Madison

"Jane Chance’s pioneering collection sets the record straight on the role of women in medieval studies. Young scholars will find in it models of courage and persistence, warnings, humor, and perhaps even consolation."—Sheila Delany, Simon Fraser University

About the Author:

Jane Chance is professor of English at Rice University and author or editor of nineteen other books, including Woman as Hero in Old English Literature (1986), Medieval Mythography, volumes 1 and 2 (1994, 2000), and Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (1996). She edits three series, the Boydell and Brewer Library of Medieval Women, the Greenwood Guides to Historic Events in the Medieval World, and the new Praeger Series on the Middle Ages.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0299207501
• ISBN 13: 9780299207502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1073
• Editor: Chance Jane