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Male Authors, Female Readers : Representation and Subjectivity in Middle English Devotional Literature / Anne Clark Bartlett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501722080
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.309382 20
LOC classification:
  • PR275.R4 B37 1995
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Reading Medieval Women Reading Devotional Literature -- II. Gendering and Regendering: The Case of De institutione inclusarum -- III. ”Letters of Love”: Feminine Courtesy and Religious Instruction -- IV. ”Ghostly Sister in Jesus Christ”: Spiritual Friendship and Sexual Politics -- V. ”I Would Have Been One of Them”: Translation, Contemplation, and Gender -- Afterword: Beyond Misogyny(?) -- Appendix: A Descriptive List of Extant Books Owned by Medieval English Nuns and Convents -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: "Holy men despise women.and view them as foul and sticking dirt in the road," asserst the male author of the fifteenth-century Book to a Mother. Middle English devotional writings reflect shades of mysogony ranging from the blatant to the subtle, yet these texts were among the most popular literature know to the earliest generation of English women readers. In the first book to examine this paradox, Anne Clark Bartlett considers why medieval women enjoyed such male-authored works as Speculum Devotorum, The Tree, The Twelve Fruits of the Holy Ghost, and Contemplations on the Dread and Love of God. Demonstrating that these texts actually provided alternative—and more appealing—notions of gender than those authorized by the Church, Bartlett redefines women's participation in medieval culture in terms of far greater agency and empowerment than have generally been acknowledged.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Reading Medieval Women Reading Devotional Literature -- II. Gendering and Regendering: The Case of De institutione inclusarum -- III. ”Letters of Love”: Feminine Courtesy and Religious Instruction -- IV. ”Ghostly Sister in Jesus Christ”: Spiritual Friendship and Sexual Politics -- V. ”I Would Have Been One of Them”: Translation, Contemplation, and Gender -- Afterword: Beyond Misogyny(?) -- Appendix: A Descriptive List of Extant Books Owned by Medieval English Nuns and Convents -- Bibliography -- Index

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"Holy men despise women.and view them as foul and sticking dirt in the road," asserst the male author of the fifteenth-century Book to a Mother. Middle English devotional writings reflect shades of mysogony ranging from the blatant to the subtle, yet these texts were among the most popular literature know to the earliest generation of English women readers. In the first book to examine this paradox, Anne Clark Bartlett considers why medieval women enjoyed such male-authored works as Speculum Devotorum, The Tree, The Twelve Fruits of the Holy Ghost, and Contemplations on the Dread and Love of God. Demonstrating that these texts actually provided alternative—and more appealing—notions of gender than those authorized by the Church, Bartlett redefines women's participation in medieval culture in terms of far greater agency and empowerment than have generally been acknowledged.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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