TY  - GEN
T1  - Gendering the master narrative : women and power in the Middle Ages
A2  - Erler, Mary Carpenter
A2  - Kowaleski, Maryanne
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn606959741
AB  - Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing how practices and institutions that ostensibly enabled women in the Middle Ages could sometimes erode their authority as well. This book provides a much-needed theoretical and historical reassessment of medieval women's power. It updates the conclusions from the editors' essential volume on that topic, Women and Power in the Middle Ages, which was published in 1988 and altered the prevailing view of female subservience by correcting the nearly ubiquitous equation of "power" with "public authority." Most scholars now accept a broader definition of power based on the interactions between men and women. In their Introduction, Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski survey the directions in which the study of medieval women's agency has developed in the past fifteen years. Like its predecessor, this volume is richly interdisciplinary. It contains essays by highly regarded scholars of history, literature, and art history, and features seventeen black-and-white illustrations and two maps
OP  - 269
CN  - HQ1143 .G46 2003
SN  - 9781501723957
SN  - 1501723952
SN  - 0801441129
SN  - 9780801441127
SN  - 0801488303
SN  - 9780801488306
KW  - Women : History : Middle Ages, 500-1500.
KW  - Literature, Medieval : Women authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Women and literature : Europe : History : To 1500.
KW  - Social history : Medieval, 500-1500.
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric) : History : To 1500.
KW  - Women in literature.
KW  - Rhetoric, Medieval.
KW  - Women and literature : History : To 1500.
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Femmes : Histoire : 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
KW  - Écrits de femmes médiévaux : Jusqu'à 1500.
KW  - Femmes et littérature : Histoire : Jusqu'à 1500.
KW  - Histoire sociale : 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
KW  - Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
KW  - Narration.
KW  - Femmes dans la littérature.
KW  - Rhétorique médiévale.
KW  - 17.93 themes and motives in literature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Medieval.
KW  - Literature, Medieval : Women authors
KW  - Rhetoric, Medieval
KW  - Social history : Medieval
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Women : Middle Ages
KW  - Europe
KW  - Gesellschaft
KW  - Familie
KW  - Autorität
KW  - Mittelalter
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Macht
KW  - Frau
KW  - Letterkunde.
KW  - Vrouwen.
KW  - Macht.
KW  - Women and literature : Europe : History.
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -