Poet, mystic, widow, wife
the extraordinary lives of medieval women
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2024
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Bloomsbury Continuum (Verlag)
978-1-3994-2008-2 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Continuum (Verlag)
978-1-3994-2008-2 (ISBN)
A spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the mind and lives of medieval women.
A spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the minds and lives of medieval women.
What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives? And how can we hear the stories of women from this period?
Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least four extraordinary women who did. Those women were: Marie de France, a poet; Julian of Norwich, a mystic and anchoress; Christine de Pizan, a widow and court writer; and Margery Kempe, a no-good wife.
Four women, writing hundreds of years ago, long before feminism existed - yet in their own ways these four, very different writers pushed back against the misogyny of the period. Each of them broke new ground in women's writing and left us incredible insights into the world of medieval life and politics.
Hetta Howes has spent her working life uncovering these women's stories to give us a valuable and unique historical insight that challenges what we hold to be common knowledge about medieval women in Europe. Women did earn money, they could live independent lives, and they thought, loved, fought and suffered just as we do today.
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife paints a portrait of the world in which these women lived, and the ways their lives speak to us in the present.
A spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the minds and lives of medieval women.
What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives? And how can we hear the stories of women from this period?
Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least four extraordinary women who did. Those women were: Marie de France, a poet; Julian of Norwich, a mystic and anchoress; Christine de Pizan, a widow and court writer; and Margery Kempe, a no-good wife.
Four women, writing hundreds of years ago, long before feminism existed - yet in their own ways these four, very different writers pushed back against the misogyny of the period. Each of them broke new ground in women's writing and left us incredible insights into the world of medieval life and politics.
Hetta Howes has spent her working life uncovering these women's stories to give us a valuable and unique historical insight that challenges what we hold to be common knowledge about medieval women in Europe. Women did earn money, they could live independent lives, and they thought, loved, fought and suffered just as we do today.
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife paints a portrait of the world in which these women lived, and the ways their lives speak to us in the present.
Dr Hetta Howes is a Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at City, University of London, and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. She regularly contributes to broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and 4, as well as writing for publications such as The Times Literary Supplement and BBC History Extra. She has a BA and MPhil from Cambridge University and a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London.
Introduction
1. Knocked Up
2. Tied Down
3. Bit on the Side
4. Wanderlust
5. Hustling
6. Making Friends …
7. … and Influencing People
8. Having It All?
9. Death
Conclusion: Afterlife
Selected Further Reading
Picture Credits
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.10.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrationen |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3994-2008-9 / 1399420089 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3994-2008-2 / 9781399420082 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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