Título: | 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 |
Autores: | Classen, Albrecht |
Tipo de documento: | texto impreso |
ISBN/ISSN/DL: | 978-3-11-089777-7 |
Dimensiones: | 1 online resource (459p.) |
Langues: | Inglés |
Clasificación: | PN 682.W6 (Literatura (General) -- Historia literaria -- Medieval (hasta 1500) -- Mujeres) |
Etiquetas: | Literature ; Women authors ; History and criticism ; Literature, Medieval ; Frauenliteratur ; Frauenmystik ; Kochbuch ; Mittelalter /Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft |
Resumen: |
Die Untersuchung unterzieht die landläufige Forschungsmeinung, Frauen im Mittelalter hätten unter starker Misogynie zu leiden gehabt und sich nur selten in der Öffentlichkeit zu Wort melden können, einer kritischen Analyse. In zehn Kap Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility: Public debates surrounding immigration policy, climate change, international relations, and constitutional and human rights are currently at the forefront of our national discourse. Critical reasoning, supported through academic research is needed. As a result, De Gruyter, along with its partner presses, is making freely available books and journal articles across nine topical areas for all students and faculty. Broadening access to this scholarship enables more people to address these issues in an informed manner: it helps us combat false news sources, to consider the nature of truth and ethics, and to understand the struggles of all members of society The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and male - are heard. The study opens with an enquiry into violence against women, including in texts by male writers (Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach) which indeed describe instances of violence, but adopt an extremely critical stance towards them. It then proceeds to show how women were able to develop an independent identity in various genres and could present themselves as authorities in the public eye. Mystic texts by Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France and Margery Kempe, the medieval conduct poem known as Die Winsbeckin, the Devout Books of Sisters composed in convents in South-West Germany, but also quasi-historical documents such as the memoirs of Helene Kottaner or Anna Weckerin's cookery book, demonstrate that far more women were in the public gaze than had hitherto been assumed and that they possessed the self-confidence to establish their positions with their intellectual and their literary achievements |
En línea: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110897777 |
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