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Hace 5 días · The Book of the Deeds of Arms and Chivalry: combining legal expertise and military strategy. Christine de Pizan (1364–ca 1430) was a prolific humanist writer with a striking ability to cut across specialised discourses and target a variety of audiences, comfortably moving from the literary domain of fiction through to politics and law.
Hace 5 días · She traces works owned by medieval women and demonstrates that Chaucer’s contemporary audience included women. The latter part of the chapter discusses Heloise and Christine de Pizan, both well-known female authors who are similar to the Wife of Bath in several ways, such as both refuting misogyny.
Hace 5 días · The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration. Helen J. Nicholson's book Women and the Crusades (Oxford UP, 2023) surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory VII first proposed a ...
Hace 6 días · Discovering American Women's History Online. This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas's photographs of ethnic weddings from the late ...
Hace 5 días · This is a matter of some scholarly debate, a debate I chose not to engage in depth, but those who are interested may wish to consult Peter Biller, The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought (Oxford, 2000), pp. 136–37, and Monica Green, ‘Bodies, gender, health, disease: recent work on medieval women’s medicine’, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd series, 1 ...
Hace 2 días · The Medieval Prison: A Social History. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2008, ISBN: 9780691135335; 197pp.; Price: £20.95. Although this book is not very long (109 pages, not counting appendices and index), it might be characterized in multiple ways. First, it is important, making a valuable addition to the literature on medieval prisons.
Hace 4 días · The exhibition “Mediaeval Women of Cyprus”, just opened in old Famagusta, is a joint project of two Turkish Cypriots, the mediaevalist Ahmet Hilmi and artist Semra Bayhanli. The show, that was ...
