The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages. Rosmarie Thee MorewedgeWoman as Image in Medieval Literature from the Twelfth Century to Dante. Joan M. Ferrante

Speculum ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 715-721
Author(s):  
H. A. Kelly
Author(s):  
Anne E. Lester

Founded in 1098, the Cistercians grew to be one of the most important monastic orders of the Middle Ages, stretching from the shores of Scotland to the littoral of Palestine, from Greece to Poland. This chapter traces three major themes that have influenced the scholarship on the topic, namely the idea of the ‘order’, the role of women within it, and the notion of Cistercian decline or corruption. Administered from its first house, Cîteaux, in northern Burgundy, the Cistercian network included hundreds of houses for monks and nuns as well as granges and chapels administered by lay brothers and sisters known as conversi and conversae, all united within a complex filiation system. From the middle of the twelfth century the Cistercians pioneered one of the most influential administrative organizations of the premodern period and developed a distinctive spirituality and aesthetic that defined their ideal of community and monastic devotion.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Dandriel Henrique Da Silva Borges

em diferentes tempos: durante o final do Medievo (na cronologia da Europa Ocidental), no entorno do século XII, e na contemporaneidade, retratada pelo universo cinematográfico da saga Harry Potter. Para entender seu papel no medievo serão analisadas versões traduzidas para o inglês de dois bestiários datados do entorno do século XII, Book of Beasts e Aberdeen Bestiary, enquanto sua representação contemporânea será analisada a partir de cenas dos seguintes filmes: Harry Potter e a Câmara Secreta, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix e Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte: Parte 2. A partir do entendimento do papel social das narrativas sobre essa figura no final da Idade Média serão então traçados paralelos com o que fora retratado nos filmes, buscando analisar se houve a reapropriação de suas características e funções.Palavras-chaves: Harry Potter, Bestiários, Book of Beasts e Aberdeen BestiaryAbstractThis paper proposes to make an analysis of how the fantastic figure of the phoenix had been worked at different times: during the end of Middle Ages (in Western European chronology), around the twelfth century, and contemporaneously, portrayed by the cinematographic universe of the Harry Potter saga. In order to understand its role in the Middle Ages, versions translated into English of two bestiaries dated from the twelfth century will be analyzed, Book of Beasts and Aberdeen Bestiary, while their contemporary representation will be analyzed from scenes from the following films: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. From the understanding of the social role of the narratives about this figure in the late Middle Ages a parallel will be drawn to what was portrayed in the films, seeking to analyze whether there was a reappropriation of its characteristics and functions.Keywords: Harry Potter, Bestiaries, Book of Beasts e Aberdeen Bestiary


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 342-366
Author(s):  
Alla Yu. Bolshakova

<p>The article contributes to the study of implementation of the genre traditions of the Russian Medieval literature in the prose of the second half of the twentieth century, specifies categorical coordinates and challenges research approaches, artificially separating a single movement of Russian literature from the time of Ilarion and Avvakum to the present day. On the example of V.&nbsp;P.&nbsp;Astafiev&rsquo;s book &ldquo;Zatesi&rdquo; which united the writer's small prose on the principle of cyclization of works based on the common stylistic and thematic features, the author comes to the conclusion about the artistic relevance of this technique, which originates in the medieval collections, in the aspiration of their compilers to work &ldquo;outside of genre traditions&rdquo; (D.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;Likhachev). But if in the Middle Ages this aspiration is more due to the subject-thematic tasks, in the New and Modern times the super-genre unity of the collection, of the book is a&nbsp;result of strengthening the compositional role of the author in their structural organization and the individualization of his image.</p>


Author(s):  
R.C. van Caenegem

Summary Notwithstanding that the role of women in law courts could be expected to be modest for the Middle Ages, a perusal of lawsuits of the 12th century produced even a lesser proportion than expected.


2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jody Enders

In 1996, R. Howard Bloch and Stephen G. Nichols edited a remarkable volume of essays called Medievalism and the Modernist Temper, in which seventeen scholars pondered, through detailed philological analysis and imaginative cultural-studies approaches, the legacy of the Middle Ages and its relevance to modern times. “WORD'S OUT,” they began, “There's something exciting going on in medieval studies, and maybe in the Renaissance too. The study of medieval literature and culture has never been more alive or at a more interesting, innovative stage.” Bloch and Nichols understood, as few others, the pertinent critical stages of the interdiscipline of medieval studies. But, critically speaking, where was the stage? With the exception of Seth Lerer's terrific piece on Eric Auerbach's gender-biased editorial establishment of the text of the twelfth-century Play of Adam, theatre was nowhere to be found.


Archaeologia ◽  
1847 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Phillipps

The manuscript entitled Mappæ Clavicula, signifying the Little Key of Drawing, or Painting, is a small duodecimo volume of sixty-seven leaves of vellum, written in the twelfth century. It appears to be perfect, except a leaf torn out between pp. 64 and 65 of the modern paging, and a little cropping in two leaves.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Anna McKay

Over the past two decades, medieval feminist scholarship has increasingly turned to the literary representation of textiles as a means of exploring the oftensilenced experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This article uses fabric as a lens through which to consider the world of the female recluse, exploring the ways in which clothing operates as a tether to patriarchal, secular values in Paul the Deacon’s eighthcentury Life of Mary of Egypt and the twelfth-century Life of Christina of Markyate. In rejecting worldly garb as recluses, these holy women seek out and achieve lives of spiritual autonomy and independence.


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