Gender, Memory and Documentary Culture, c.900-1300

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-78327-789-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 312 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Medieval Documentary Cultures

Considers the role gender played in the production, use and preservation of documents.

How was the world of medieval documentation and memory creation affected by gender? This question is central to the essays collected here, which bring together aspects of gender and documentary culture that are usually studied only in isolation. Covering the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, the volume offers a broad geographical reach - England, France, Flanders, Germany, Spain - and an array of sources, from charters, letters and court proceedings to seals, iconography, and illumination. There is a particular focus on lay female communities, including women's collective legal action in pre-Conquest England, documentary initiatives of Castilian peasant widows, and urban Flemish women's sealing practices. Re-examinations of noblewomen's centrality - and erasure - in charters focus on Ermengarde of Brittany, Mathilda of Boulogne and Berengaria of Navarre. Contributions on gender and historical writing explore their development in Ottonian courts, tenth-century English coronation portraits, Orderic Vitalis' Historia Ecclesiastica, and French chroniclers' rhetorical strategies for writing noblewomen's rage. Further chapters consider monastic spaces, including women's houses at Auxerre and Marcigny and at Holy Trinity, Caen, and explore women's memory preservation efforts, at Spanish houses - San Salvador de Oña and Santa María de Piasca - and a community at Bouxières. This volume demonstrates the new insights that can be gleaned by viewing various processes, such as legal disputes and monastic narratives and foundation, through a gendered lens.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Insley, Charles

Gathagan, Laura L

Weitere Mitwirkende

Livingstone, Amy

Rabin, Andrew

Letouzey-Réty, Catherine

Insley, Charles

Bouchard, Constance B

Peterson, David

Scott, Florence H R

Tanner, Heather J

Wangerin, Laura E

Gathagan, Laura L

Agúndez San Miguel, Leticia

Barton, Richard

Isaac, Steven

Vanderputten, Steven

Tullis, Tatum

Ziegler, Tiffany A

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Rabin, Andrew
Andrew Rabin is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Louisville.

Gathagan, Laura L
LAURA L. GATHAGAN is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. She has published widely on medieval women's power. She is a Fellow of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Royal Society of Arts.

Insley, Charles
CHARLES INSLEY is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester.

Gathagan, Laura L
LAURA L. GATHAGAN is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. She has published widely on medieval women's power. She is a Fellow of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Royal Society of Arts.

Isaac, Steven
STEVEN ISAAC is the Simpson Professor of Medieval History, Longwood University.

Insley, Charles
CHARLES INSLEY is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester.