Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages
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- ISBN 9781843846765
- Weight: 648g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Nov 2022
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Wide-ranging examination of women's achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture.
Medieval women were normally denied access to public educational institutions, and so also denied the gateways to most leadership positions. Modern scholars have therefore tended to study learned medieval women as simply anomalies, and women generally as victims. This volume, however, argues instead for a via media. Drawing upon manuscript and archival sources, scholars here show that more medieval women attained some form of learning than hitherto imagined, and that women with such legal, social or ecclesiastical knowledge also often exercised professional or communal leadership.
Bringing together contributors from the disciplines of literature, history and religion, this volume challenges several traditional views: firstly, the still-prevalent idea that women's intellectual accomplishments were limited to the Latin literate. The collection therefore engages heavily with vernacular writings (in Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, French, Dutch, German and Italian), and also with material culture (manuscript illumination, stained glass, fabric and jewelry) for evidence of women's advanced capabilities. But in doing so, the contributors strive to avoid the equally problematic view that women's accomplishments were somehow limited to the vernacular and the material. So several essays examine women at work with the sacred languages of the three Abrahamic traditions (Latin, Arabic and Hebrew). And a third traditional view is also interrogated: that women were somehow more "original" for their lack of learning and and dependence on their mother tongue. Scholars here agree wholeheartedly that women could be daring thinkers in any language; they engage readily with women's learnedness wherever it can be found.
KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON is Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame. KATIEANN-MARIE BUGYIS is Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame. JOHN VAN ENGEN is Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame. KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON is Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame. JOHN VAN ENGEN is Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame. NICHOLAS WATSON teaches English at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval English and North European literature, intellectual history, visionary writing and the role of the written vernacular. AMANDA BOHNE is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. RACHEL KOOPMANS is a historian of medieval religion, hagiography, and material culture who specialises in the cult of Thomas Becket and the stained glass of Canterbury Cathedral. She teaches history at York University in Toronto, Canada.
