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Books : A History of Women in the West, Volume II, Silences of the Middle Ages
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.4094
EAN: 9780674403680
ISBN: 0674403681
Label: Belknap Press
Manufacturer: Belknap Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: April 25, 2000
Publisher: Belknap Press
Studio: Belknap Press
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Drawing on myriad sources--from the faint traces left by the rocking of a cradle at the site of an early medieval home to an antique illustration of Eve's fall from grace-this second volume in the celebrated series offers new perspectives on women of the past. Twelve distinguished historians from many countries examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition, and their daily experience from the demise of the Roman Empire to the genesis of the Italian Renaissance.
More than in any other era, a medieval woman's place in society was determined by men; her sexuality was perceived as disruptive and dangerous, her proper realm that of the home and cloister. The authors draw upon the writings of bishops and abbots, moralists and merchants, philosophers and legislators, to illuminate how men controlled women's lives. Sumptuary laws regulating feminine dress and ornament, pastoral letters admonishing women to keep silent and remain chaste, and learned treatises with their fantastic theories about women's physiology are fully explored in these pages. As adoration of the Virgin Mary reached full flower by the year 1200, ecclesiastics began to envision motherhood as a holy role; misogyny, however, flourished unrestrained in local proverbs, secular verses, and clerical thought throughout the period.
Were women's fates sealed by the dictates of church and society? The authors investigate legal, economic, and demographic aspects of family and communal life between the sixth and the fifteenth centuries and bring to light the fleeting moments in which women managed to seize some small measure of autonomy over their lives. The notion that courtly love empowered feudal women is discredited in this volume. The pattern of wear on a hearthstone, fingerprints on a terra-cotta pot, and artifacts from everyday life such as scissors, thimbles, spindles, and combs are used to reconstruct in superb detail the commonplace tasks that shaped women's existence inside and outside the home. As in antiquity, male fantasies and fears are evident in art. Yet a growing number of women rendered visions of their own gender in sumptuous tapestries and illuminations. The authors look at the surviving texts of female poets and mystics and document the stirrings of a quiet revolution throughout the West, as a few daring women began to preserve their thoughts in writing.
Rating:
- Medieval misogyny: not exonerated, but explained
The Virginia Quarterly Review comments: "Analyses of medieval popular culture and art are woven together judiciously in this comprehensive and well-informed volume." The Review caught the book's strengths just right. Its thoughtful assembly and much of its writing shimmers. The book makes the non-rational logic of medieval minds much clearer.
Editor Christiane Klapisch-Zuber marshals participating authors and their work in a well-ordered sequence, showing her command of subject and materials ... Read More
Rating: - Actually, this book is quite good
Blame it on my European origin, but it was pleasing, like a change of the landscape, to read most of the essays. Even though I do consider myself a feminist, I was glad to finally find a modern academic book which doesn't share the pretentious and dry obsession about gender!
The style is fluid, with many anecdotes. Of course, one could argue that it is sometimes too easy-going or not focused enough, but it is a recommendable introduction.
Rating:
- A one-sided view...
One can at once notice the meticulous research that preceded the writing of the book, the more surprising is that the author describes only the reasons why women were considered "vessels of sin" in that period of time and other hideous superstitions attributed to them. No line is dedicated (and to believe that history had not preserved any evidence of the contrary is laughable) about those mothers, mistresses, wifes, sisters that had been deeply loved, adored and respected. To creat an opinion that all ... Read More
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A History of Women in the West, Volume II, Silences of the Middle Ages
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.4094
EAN: 9780674403680
ISBN: 0674403681
Label: Belknap Press
Manufacturer: Belknap Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: April 25, 2000
Publisher: Belknap Press
Studio: Belknap Press
Related Items:
- A History of Women in the West, Volume I, From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints
- A History of Women in the West, Volume III, Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes
- A History of Women in the West, Volume V, Toward a Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century
- A History of Private Life, Volume II, Revelations of the Medieval World
- A History of Private Life, Volume III, Passions of the Renaissance (v. 3)
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Drawing on myriad sources--from the faint traces left by the rocking of a cradle at the site of an early medieval home to an antique illustration of Eve's fall from grace-this second volume in the celebrated series offers new perspectives on women of the past. Twelve distinguished historians from many countries examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition, and their daily experience from the demise of the Roman Empire to the genesis of the Italian Renaissance.
More than in any other era, a medieval woman's place in society was determined by men; her sexuality was perceived as disruptive and dangerous, her proper realm that of the home and cloister. The authors draw upon the writings of bishops and abbots, moralists and merchants, philosophers and legislators, to illuminate how men controlled women's lives. Sumptuary laws regulating feminine dress and ornament, pastoral letters admonishing women to keep silent and remain chaste, and learned treatises with their fantastic theories about women's physiology are fully explored in these pages. As adoration of the Virgin Mary reached full flower by the year 1200, ecclesiastics began to envision motherhood as a holy role; misogyny, however, flourished unrestrained in local proverbs, secular verses, and clerical thought throughout the period.
Were women's fates sealed by the dictates of church and society? The authors investigate legal, economic, and demographic aspects of family and communal life between the sixth and the fifteenth centuries and bring to light the fleeting moments in which women managed to seize some small measure of autonomy over their lives. The notion that courtly love empowered feudal women is discredited in this volume. The pattern of wear on a hearthstone, fingerprints on a terra-cotta pot, and artifacts from everyday life such as scissors, thimbles, spindles, and combs are used to reconstruct in superb detail the commonplace tasks that shaped women's existence inside and outside the home. As in antiquity, male fantasies and fears are evident in art. Yet a growing number of women rendered visions of their own gender in sumptuous tapestries and illuminations. The authors look at the surviving texts of female poets and mystics and document the stirrings of a quiet revolution throughout the West, as a few daring women began to preserve their thoughts in writing.
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- Medieval misogyny: not exonerated, but explainedThe Virginia Quarterly Review comments: "Analyses of medieval popular culture and art are woven together judiciously in this comprehensive and well-informed volume." The Review caught the book's strengths just right. Its thoughtful assembly and much of its writing shimmers. The book makes the non-rational logic of medieval minds much clearer.
Editor Christiane Klapisch-Zuber marshals participating authors and their work in a well-ordered sequence, showing her command of subject and materials ... Read More
Rating:
- Actually, this book is quite goodBlame it on my European origin, but it was pleasing, like a change of the landscape, to read most of the essays. Even though I do consider myself a feminist, I was glad to finally find a modern academic book which doesn't share the pretentious and dry obsession about gender!
The style is fluid, with many anecdotes. Of course, one could argue that it is sometimes too easy-going or not focused enough, but it is a recommendable introduction.
Rating:
- A one-sided view...One can at once notice the meticulous research that preceded the writing of the book, the more surprising is that the author describes only the reasons why women were considered "vessels of sin" in that period of time and other hideous superstitions attributed to them. No line is dedicated (and to believe that history had not preserved any evidence of the contrary is laughable) about those mothers, mistresses, wifes, sisters that had been deeply loved, adored and respected. To creat an opinion that all ... Read More
Arts & Photography • Biographies & Memoirs • Business & Investing • Children's Books • Comics & Graphic Novels • Computers & Internet • Cooking, Food & Wine • Entertainment • Gay & Lesbian • Health, Mind & Body • History • Home & Garden • Law • Literature & Fiction • Medicine • Mystery & Thrillers • Nonfiction • Outdoors & Nature • Parenting & Families • Professional & Technical • Reference • Religion & Spirituality • Romance • Science • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Teens • Travel •
