Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts

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Read this book on Questia. Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century.

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This collection supplies tools to examine more completely the construction and application of gender in both Latin and vernacular texts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

"Without question, the topic of this book is significant, the treatment overdue. The word that comes to mind about this book is 'exciting.'.

By woman's tears redeemed: female lament in St. Augustine's 'Confessions' and the correspondence of Abelard and Heloise / Nancy A. Jones --Hrotswitha writes herself: 'Clamor Validus Gandeshemensis' / Barbara K.

Gold --Gender and negotiating discourse: mediated autobiography and female mystics of medieval Italy / Phyllis Culham --Saint of the.

This collection supplies tools to examine more completely the construction and application of gender in both Latin and vernacular texts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Reviews "Without question, the topic of this book is significant, the treatment overdue. The word that comes to mind about this book is 'exciting.'.

Considering a wide range of Renaissance works of nonfiction, Jordan asserts that feminism as a mode of thought emerged as early as the fifteenth century in Italy, and that the main arguments for the social equality of the sexes were common in the sixteenth century.

Renaissance feminism, she maintains, was a feature of a broadly revisionist movement that regarded the medieval 3/5(1). The item Sex and gender in medieval and Renaissance texts: the Latin tradition, edited by Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in.

Since women's literary culture is a history of reading, hearing and patronage, as well as of composition, the series considers medieval women's texts for and about, as well as by, medieval women.

Volumes may be monographs or tightly-themed essay collections, or editions and translations of texts by, for and about women. The Internet Medieval Sourcebook functions as an expanding publication and respository of texts, not as a website with constantly updated information.

For readers looking for such a site it is worth checking out the very well presented and advertising. Sex and gender in medieval and Renaissance texts.

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Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literature. This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge.

Tison Pugh, William W. "Barbara K. Gold, Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition. State University of New York Press, " Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexual no. 1 (): Author: Tison Pugh, William White.

The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature, An investigation of the motif of the unspeakable as manifested in a wide range of medieval texts, from the Exeter Book to Chaucer.

wolf-men (and wolf-women), and the rebellion and rhetoric of the tongueless. These texts show how in representations of gender and. Steinberg, Leo. The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion.

University of Chicago Press, Whittington, Karl. “Queer,” in Studies in Iconography (special issue on “Medieval Art History Today: Critical Terms”) 33 (), – Wolfthal, Diane. In and Out of the Marital Bed: Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe. "A volume of the first importance to the scholarship of medieval women writers.

An ambitious attempt to understand hat 'gender' and 'text' might have meant in the Middle Ages from the perspective of the woman writer and reader rather than through the more usual androcentric lens [The] collection brings together for the first time in one place essays about a whole.

From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status dictated all aspects of women's lives during the middle ages.

A cross-disciplinary resource, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life. About Gender in Medieval Culture.

Gender in Medieval Culture provides a detailed examination of medieval society's views on both gender and sexuality, and shows how they are inextricably linked. Sex roles were clearly defined in the medieval world although there were exceptions to the rules, and this book examines both the commonplace world view and the.

In The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy McCracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing and maintaining the sex-gender systems of medieval culture.

Reading a variety of literary texts in relation to historical, medical, and religious discourses about blood, and in the context of anthropological and religious studies.

Gold, Barbara K. et al. “Introduction,” in Barbara K. Gold et al (eds), Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition, State University of New York PressAlbany Herlihy, David, “Did Women Have a Renaissance?.

Aspiring love poets in Renaissance England had a variety of traditions, and a growing number of texts, to draw upon. New arrivals on the literary scene in this period included poetry produced on the European mainland in contemporary European languages, as well as an increasing range and number of classical texts which depicted and celebrated a.

Sex, Gender and Identity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Academic Year Identity, in medieval texts, is always in process, and the question of identity is a political one with serious implications for the communities literature addresses and creates. The module therefore explores the ways in which key ideologies and institutions.

Medieval female sexuality is the collection of sexual and sensual characteristics identified in a woman from the Middle a modern woman, a medieval woman's sexuality included many different aspects.

Sexuality not only included sex, but spread into many parts of the medieval woman's life. Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles’. From there we bring the best and most important contributions, add illustrations, discussion of the literature, plus material from other authors.

So this group of papers, as it stands, goes far. The medieval period can seem very distant from our own time, and the study of medieval women may appear particularly elusive. But feminist historians have found medieval Europe a rich subject for both its differences from and its legacy for subsequent eras.

Barbara Gold, Paul Miller, and Charles Platter, the editors of Sexand Gender in the Medieval andRenaissance Texts: TheLatinTradition, assert that their twofold goal throughthis collection of essays is "to reclaim some long-neglectedtexts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and to examine the representations of theAuthor: Tison Pugh, William White.

Although the medieval chapter of Karin Pendle's Women and Music: A History by J. Michele Edwards surveys a variety of women's musical roles, Pendle's own contribution on "Women in Music, ca.

" concentrates on ways in which Renaissance women were excluded or marginalized from what we consider the musical mainstream, the composition of. What is the relationship between sex and gender.

Is gender a product of nature, or nurture, or both. In Beyond Philosophizing About Sex. Ancient Greek philosophers, medieval theologians, Enlightenment thinkers, and contemporary humanists alike have debated all aspects of human sexuality, including its purpose, permissibility, normalcy, and.

The important work on medieval transvestism I would cite is by Bullough himself: ‘Cross dressing and gender role change in the Middle Ages’, in Handbook of Medieval Sexuality, ed.

Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage (New York, ), – Although published in an anthology on sexuality, Bullough’s article, as its title indicates. Renaissance feminism: literary texts and political models (review) Renaissance feminism: literary texts and political models (review) Walkley, Maxwell J.

Appreciation of John has not only been hindered by complex textual problems. His Greek is of a kind relatively close to the vernacular of the sixth century, the optative being rare and the dual non-existent. Katherine L. Jansen is a historian specializing in the history of medieval Italy, religious culture, and women and gender.

Her most recent book is Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, ). Since she has also published Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, ), co-edited with. These texts show how in representations of gender and sexuality in medieval literature, the unspeakable challenges the voiceless to overcome silence, showing the limits of language, the workings of power and the desire to be heard.The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, Boswell, John E. The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. New York: Pantheon Books, Brundage, James A. Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe.

Chicago. Forbidden Friendships is a remarkable study of Renaissance Florence and the homosexuals who lived there. Historically, there have been many attempts by societies to purge themselves of homosexuals.

Forbidden Friendships is a tale of Florence's attempt at just that, and its a story complete with gangs, political persecution, sex courts, death /5.