Daily Life of Women in Medieval Europe

Belle S. Tuten (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2022
Greenwood Press (Verlag)
978-1-4408-7234-1 (ISBN)

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This book is an introduction to the everyday lives of medieval European women: how they ate and slept, what their work was like, and the many factors that shaped their experiences.

Ordinary people are often hard to see in the historical record. This resource for students reveals the everyday world of the Middle Ages for women: sex, marriage, work, and power. Using up-to-date scholarship from both archeology and history, this book covers major daily concerns for medieval people, their understanding of the world, their relationships with others, and their place in society. It attempts to clarify what we know and what we do not know about women's daily lives in the Western European Middle Ages, between approximately 500 and 1500 CE.

The book's focus is everyday life, so the topics are organized around women's chores, expectations, and difficulties, especially with regard to sexuality and childbirth. In addition to broad survey information about the Middle Ages, the book also introduces major women writers and thinkers and provides some examples of their work, giving the reader an opportunity to engage with the women themselves.

Belle S. Tuten, PhD, is Charles A. Dana Professor of History at Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA.

Preface
Introduction
Chronology
1. MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY
Late Antique and Early Medieval Marriage
Roman Marriage
Germanic Marriage
Age at First Marriage
The Christian Influence on Early Medieval Marriage
Sex in Marriage—Fourth Through Eleventh Centuries
Concubinage and Polygyny
High Medieval Marriage and Sexuality
Sex in Marriage—Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries
Positive and Negative Views of Sex
Positive and Negative Views of Marriage and Women
Jewish Marriage and Sexuality
Rape and Sexual Violence
Domestic Abuse
Conclusion
2. CHILDBIRTH, CHILD REARING, AND THE LIFE CYCLE
Understanding the Female Body
Pregnancy
Childbirth
Birth Attendants and Midwives
Contraception, Abortion, and Infanticide
Illegitimacy and Abandonment
The Ages of Man
Stages of Life: The Family
Stages of Life: Infancy
Stages of Life: Adolescence
Stages of Life: Adulthood
Stages of Life: Widowhood
Stages of Life: Old Age
Stages of Life: A Good Death
Conclusion
3. WORKING WOMEN
Living and Working in the Countryside: Serfs and Peasants
Everyday Food
Upper-Class Food and Feasts
Cloth Production
Town Work in the Middle Ages
Creating and Transmitting Knowledge: Book Production
Caregiving and Healing
Conclusion
4. NOBLE WOMEN
Marriages and Children
Dowry, Dower, and Inheritance
Royal Power and Regency
Conduct of an Aristocratic Lady: Ideals
Daily Life for Upper-Class Women
Leisure Time
Conclusion
5. RELIGION AND THE CHURCH
Daily Religious Practice
Finances and Endowments
New and Reformed Religious Orders
Lay Piety and Beguinage
Mysticism
Joan of Arc: Saint or Heretic?
Conclusion
6. WOMEN ON THE OUTSKIRTS
Crimes and Incarceration
Sexual Transgressions
Women and Religious Heresy
Magic and Witchcraft
Conclusion
7. WOMEN IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Brunhilda (Sixth Century CE)
Baudonivia (ca. 600 CE)
Dhuoda (Ninth Century)
Hrosvitha of Gandersheim (ca. 935–ca. 973)
Wynflaed, Wulfwaru, and Wulfgyth (Tenth to Eleventh Centuries)
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (d. ca. 1091 CE)
Constance of Angers (Late Eleventh to Early Twelfth Centuries)
Trota of Salerno (Twelfth Century)
Qasmuna bint Isma'il ibn Bagdalah (Twelfth Century)
Héloïse of Argenteuil (ca. 1100–1164)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
Herrad of Hohenburg (ca. 1130–1195)
Clemence of Barking (Late Twelfth Century)
The Trobairitz (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries)
Marie de France (Fl. Twelfth Century)
Marguerite Porete (d. 1310)
Julian of Norwich (ca. 1343–ca. 1416)
Christine de Pisan (1364–1430)
Catherine Benincasa of Siena (1347–1380)
Margery Kempe (1373–ca. 1439)
Bartolomea Riccoboni (ca. 1369–1440)
Helene Kottanner (ca. 1400–after 1470)
The Paston Women (Fifteenth Century)
Conclusion
Primary Document A: Héloïse to Abelard, Letter 4, ca. 1132
Primary Document B: Catherine of Siena, Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin, ca. 1370
Primary Document C: Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, ca. 1410
Primary Document D: Margaret Paston, The Marriage of Margery Paston, 1469
Primary Document E: Margery Kempe, Excerpt from The Book of Margery Kempe, 1521
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series
Zusatzinfo	18 bw illus
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4408-7234-1 / 1440872341
ISBN-13	978-1-4408-7234-1 / 9781440872341
Zustand	Neuware