En norsk matriark analyserer patriarkerne

The Norwegian matriarch, Kari E. Børresen, died in April 2016, after a fine academic career as one of the outstanding feminist theologians of her generation. This article seeks to portray her by lifting up one of the key issues of her research within gender studies: the imago Dei and the various ways this was understood in Christian antiquity and the Middle Ages. Before embarking on that, the article introduces Børresen and her work as a feminist theologian in general.

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Women and Books of Hours: Gender Differences, Gender Research

Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia ◽

10.5617/acta.5758 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 22 ◽

pp. 129-147

Author(s):

Ragnild Martine Bø

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Gender Studies ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Gender Perspective ◽

Books Of Hours ◽

Medieval Manuscripts ◽

Gender Research ◽

The Middle Ages ◽

Female Ownership

The application of gender studies to medieval manuscripts and to female literacu has enriched our understanding of the relation between women and books in the Middle Ages. My concern here is more specifically the relation between women and books of hours. The aim of the article is to offer an overview of what has been written about women and books of hours over the last few decades, to indicate some of the gendered differences that can be noticed in books of hours, and to give some examples from contemporary scholarship on how a gender perspective can open up scope for new readings of books of hours with a known female ownership. The article concludes that posing gender-oriented questions about books of hours with female owner portraits opens up new perspectives and that such books were often, but not always, produced with a pictorial content that advocates the virtues of purity, humility, and obedience.

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Promocje doktorskie jako ceremonie akademickie

Studia Edukacyjne ◽

10.14746/se.2018.48.14 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 215-227

Author(s):

Emilia Szymczak

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Initial Level ◽

Academic Career ◽

Social Groups ◽

Field Of Study ◽

Academic World ◽

Academic Capital ◽

The Middle Ages ◽

Academic Degrees

Academic regalia, symbols and ceremonies are an important element of university reality. The ruling force here is the tradition and continuity of the preservation of symbols since the Middle Ages. The awarding of academic degrees and titles in the XXI century is still associated with a consistent structure during which specific rituals – characteristic for University or even each field of study – take place. They become an exemplification of prestige in the academic world, the position of professors, as well as other social groups, and crystallize the place in the hierarchy of various individuals and groups of people, as well as the academic capital that they represent. In this article, I will focus on this initial level of academic career which is a doctorate and especially at this ceremonial or symbolic ritual of passage – the doctoral promotion.

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On the Professorial Voice

Science in Context ◽

10.1017/s0269889703000693 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 16 (1-2) ◽

pp. 43-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

William Clark

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Academic Career ◽

Essential Feature ◽

Modern Science ◽

Traditional Authority ◽

Written Form ◽

Modern Era ◽

The Middle Ages

ArgumentMuch recent research has established the importance of visualization in modern science. This essay treats, instead, of the continued importance of the aural and oral: the professorial voice. The professor remains important for science since so many scientists still instantiate this persona and, as is here argued, a “voice” constitutes an essential feature of it. The form of the essay reflects its contents. From the Middle Ages until well into the modern era, the archetypal professorial genre was the disputation, an oral event recast in written form. Apropos of the traditional disputation, this essay begins with a disquisition more or less to the point. It concerns Nietzsche’s first major publication, which violated norms for the proper professorial voice, thus accelerated the destruction of his academic career. The essay then presents six theses on the professorial voice. The theses treat relevant aspects of the professorial voice from the Sophists onward. It is argued, in Weberian terms, that the professorial voice or persona embodies elements of charismatic and traditional authority which coexist with and condition the rational authority or “objectivity” of science.

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