The power of a woman's voice in medieval and early modern literatures [[electronic resource] ] : new approaches to German and European women writers and to violence against women in premodern times / / Albrecht Classen |
Autore | Classen Albrecht |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (460 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.892870940902 |
Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Medieval - Women authors - History and criticism
Literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
Women/literature
cookbook medieval times/society, economy women/mysticism |
ISBN | 3-11-089777-6 |
Classificazione | EC 5120 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Violence to Women, Women's Rights, and Their Defenders in Medieval German Literature -- Chapter Two. Women Speak up at the Medieval Court: Gender Roles and Public Influence in Hartmann von Aue's Erec and Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan and Isolde -- Chapter Three. Women's Secular and Spiritual Power in the Middle Ages. Two Case Studies: Hildegard von Bingen and Marie de France -- Chapter Four. Gender Crossing, Spiritual Transgression, and the Epistemological Experience of the Divine in Mystical Discourse: Hildegard von Bingen -- Chapter Five. The Winsbeckin - Female Discourse or Male Projection? New Questions to a Middle High German Gendered Didactic Text in Comparison with Christine de Pizan. What do we make out of a female voice within a male dominated textual genre? -- Chapter Six. Domestic Violence in Medieval and Early-Modern German, French, Italian, and English Literature (Marie de France, Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer) -- Chapter Seven. Reading, Listening, and Writing Communities in Late Medieval Women's Dominican Convents. The Mystical Drive Toward the Word. The Testimony of the Sisterbooks -- Chapter Eight. Margery Kempe as a Writer: A Woman's Voice in the Mystical and Literary Discourse -- Chapter Nine. Helene Kottanner: A Fifteenth-Century Eye-Witness Turned Author. The Earliest Medieval Memoirs by a German Woman Writer -- Chapter Ten. Sixteenth-Century Cookbooks, Artes Literature, and Female Voices: Anna Weckerin (Keller) and Sabina Welser -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788418603321 |
Classen Albrecht | ||
Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The power of a woman's voice in medieval and early modern literatures : new approaches to German and European women writers and to violence against women in premodern times / / Albrecht Classen |
Autore | Classen Albrecht |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (460 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.892870940902 |
Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Medieval - Women authors - History and criticism
Literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
ISBN | 3-11-089777-6 |
Classificazione | EC 5120 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Violence to Women, Women's Rights, and Their Defenders in Medieval German Literature -- Chapter Two. Women Speak up at the Medieval Court: Gender Roles and Public Influence in Hartmann von Aue's Erec and Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan and Isolde -- Chapter Three. Women's Secular and Spiritual Power in the Middle Ages. Two Case Studies: Hildegard von Bingen and Marie de France -- Chapter Four. Gender Crossing, Spiritual Transgression, and the Epistemological Experience of the Divine in Mystical Discourse: Hildegard von Bingen -- Chapter Five. The Winsbeckin - Female Discourse or Male Projection? New Questions to a Middle High German Gendered Didactic Text in Comparison with Christine de Pizan. What do we make out of a female voice within a male dominated textual genre? -- Chapter Six. Domestic Violence in Medieval and Early-Modern German, French, Italian, and English Literature (Marie de France, Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer) -- Chapter Seven. Reading, Listening, and Writing Communities in Late Medieval Women's Dominican Convents. The Mystical Drive Toward the Word. The Testimony of the Sisterbooks -- Chapter Eight. Margery Kempe as a Writer: A Woman's Voice in the Mystical and Literary Discourse -- Chapter Nine. Helene Kottanner: A Fifteenth-Century Eye-Witness Turned Author. The Earliest Medieval Memoirs by a German Woman Writer -- Chapter Ten. Sixteenth-Century Cookbooks, Artes Literature, and Female Voices: Anna Weckerin (Keller) and Sabina Welser -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820643003321 |
Classen Albrecht | ||
Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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