7. Reinterpreting Rebellion: Textual Communities and the Circumcellions

2019 ◽  
pp. 173-194
Keyword(s):  
Textual Communities

PLATO'S AUTHORITY AND THE FORMATION OF TEXTUAL COMMUNITIES

2014 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 793-807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Baltzly
Keyword(s):  
Textual Communities

It is widely agreed that, in the re-emergence of Platonism as a dogmatic school of philosophy following the demise of the sceptical academy, Plato's works came to have an authoritative status. This paper argues for a particular understanding of what that authority consists in and how it was acquired.

Towards Feminism: Christine De Pizan, Female Advocacy, and Women’s Textual Communities in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Krueger
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Christine De Pizan ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Romance Of The Rose ◽  
Early Modern Women ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Women's Literacy ◽  
Textual Communities ◽  
The City

Although "feminist" claims for full legal and political emancipation were nonexistent in the Middle Ages and women had restricted access to education, many elite women throughout Europe left eloquent written testimony of their intellectual and literary gifts. Some women explicitly took up the pen to defend women's honor against misogynistic attacks and to champion their contributions to society. This chapter focuses on the pro-feminine works of Christine de Pizan (1364–1430?), who not only engaged in an epistolary debate with male authorities denouncing the Romance of the Rose as antifeminist, but also wrote two works explicitly defending female virtue and promoting women's social well-being: The City of Ladies and The Treasure of the City of Ladies. Christine's work participated in the spread of women's literacy; her female advocacy anticipated arguments for women's education and critiques of marriage made by subsequent female humanists and early modern women writers in France, Italy, and England.

Suitable Reading Material: Fandom and Female Pleasure in Women’s Engagement with Romantic Periodicals

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Hayles Gledhill
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Women Readers ◽  
Genre Fiction ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Textual Communities

Romantic women’s magazines were part of a broad cultural moment that saw a rapid expansion in the presence and accessibility of genre fiction, which easily attached feminine associations to the critical imaginary. Evan Hayles Gledhill’s essay analyses women readers’ investment in reading and authoring Gothic and romantic fictions for late eighteenth-century periodicals, such as the Lady’s Monthly Museum (1798–1828) and the Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832), to reveal how this fiction disrupted the traditional and gendered value systems that dominated Romantic publishing. In the process, Gledhill uncovers striking similarities between the textual communities that produced, or emerged in response to, this fiction and modern textual fan communities.

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