The case for women in medieval culture
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The case for women in medieval culture
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, c1997
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Bibliography: p. [245]-267
Includes index
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This text sets out to demonstrate that there existed from early in the Middle Ages a corpus of substantial traditions in defence of women and that this corpus itself consolidated strands of profeminine thought that had been present as far back as the patristic literature of the 4th century. The text surveys extant writings formally defending women in the Middle Ages; identifies a source for profeminine argument in biblical apocrypha; offers a series of explorations of the background and wider circulation of central arguments on behalf of women; and seeks to situate relevant texts by Christine de Pizan, Chaucer, Abelard, and Hrotsvitha in relation to these arguments. Topics covered range from the "privileges" of women, and pro-Eve polemic, to the social and moral strengths attributed to women, and to the powerful models - frequently disruptive of patriarchal complacency - presented by Old and New Testament women.
The contribution made by these emphases (which are not to be confused with "feminism" in a modern sense) to medieval constructions of gender is throughout critically assessed, and the book concludes by asking how far defenders were controlled by, or able to query, assumptions about what was "natural" (and therefore imagined inflexible) in gender theory.
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