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Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies
Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns
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Edited by:
Laine E Doggett
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With contributions by:
Ann Marie Rasmussen
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English
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2016
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Essays using feminist approaches to offer fresh insights into aspects of the texts and the material culture of the middle ages.
Feminist discourses have called into question axiomatic world views and shown how gender and sexuality inevitably shape our perceptions, both historically and in the present moment. Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies advances that critical endeavour with new questions and insights relating to gender and queer studies, sexualities, the subaltern, margins, and blurred boundaries. The volume's contributions, from French literary studies as well asGerman, English, history and art history, evince a variety of modes of feminist analysis, primarily in medieval studies but with extensions into early modernism. Several interrogate the ethics of feminist hermeneutics, the function of women characters in various literary genres, and so-called "natural" binaries - sex/gender, male/female, East/West, etc. - that undergird our vision of the world. Others investigate learned women and notions of female readership, authorship, and patronage in the production and reception of texts and manuscripts. Still others look at bodies - male male, female, neither, and both - and how clothes cover and socially encode them.
Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies is a tribute to E. Jane Burns, whose important work has proven foundational to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Old French feminist studies. Through her scholarship, teaching, and leadership in co-founding the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Burns has inspired a new generation of feminist scholars.
Laine E. Doggett is Associate Professor of French at St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary'sCity; Daniel E. O'Sullivan is Professor of French at the University of Mississippi.
Contributors: Cynthia J. Brown, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Kristin L. Burr, Madeline H. Caviness, Laine E. Doggett, Sarah-Grace Heller,Ruth Mazo Karras, Roberta L. Krueger, Sharon Kinoshita, Tom Linkinen, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Lisa Perfetti, Ann Marie Rasmussen, Nancy Freeman Regalado, Elizabeth Robertson, Helen Solterer
Feminist discourses have called into question axiomatic world views and shown how gender and sexuality inevitably shape our perceptions, both historically and in the present moment. Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies advances that critical endeavour with new questions and insights relating to gender and queer studies, sexualities, the subaltern, margins, and blurred boundaries. The volume's contributions, from French literary studies as well asGerman, English, history and art history, evince a variety of modes of feminist analysis, primarily in medieval studies but with extensions into early modernism. Several interrogate the ethics of feminist hermeneutics, the function of women characters in various literary genres, and so-called "natural" binaries - sex/gender, male/female, East/West, etc. - that undergird our vision of the world. Others investigate learned women and notions of female readership, authorship, and patronage in the production and reception of texts and manuscripts. Still others look at bodies - male male, female, neither, and both - and how clothes cover and socially encode them.
Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies is a tribute to E. Jane Burns, whose important work has proven foundational to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Old French feminist studies. Through her scholarship, teaching, and leadership in co-founding the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Burns has inspired a new generation of feminist scholars.
Laine E. Doggett is Associate Professor of French at St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary'sCity; Daniel E. O'Sullivan is Professor of French at the University of Mississippi.
Contributors: Cynthia J. Brown, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Kristin L. Burr, Madeline H. Caviness, Laine E. Doggett, Sarah-Grace Heller,Ruth Mazo Karras, Roberta L. Krueger, Sharon Kinoshita, Tom Linkinen, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Lisa Perfetti, Ann Marie Rasmussen, Nancy Freeman Regalado, Elizabeth Robertson, Helen Solterer
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Contributor: Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
MATILDA TOMARYN BRUCKNER, Professor Emerita of French (Boston College), has published numerous books and articles on 12th and 13th century romance and lyric in Old French and Occitan. Her research and publications also include animal studies, narrative in verse and prose and, most recently, a turn to Jewish-Christian relations and the Bible.
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Contributor: Roberta L Krueger
Dr Alex Davis is Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews.
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Contributor: Sarah-Grace Heller
SARAH-GRACE HELLER is Associate Professor and Chair of French and Italian at the Ohio State University.
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CONTENTS
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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CONTRIBUTORS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Introduction: The Work of E. Jane Burns and the Feminisms of Medieval Studies
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E. JANE BURNS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
15 - PART I Debating Gender
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Natural and Unnatural Woman: Melusine Inside and Out
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Nurturing Debate in Le Roman de Silence
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The Man Backing Down from the Lady in Trobairitz Tensos
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Having Fun with Women: Why a Feminist Teaches Fabliaux
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Hats and Veils: There’s No Such Thing as Freedom of Choice, and It’s a Good Thing Too
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When the Knight Undresses, His Clothing Speaks: Vestimentary Allegories in the Works of Baudouin de Condé (c. 1240–1280)
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John/Eleanor Rykener Revisited
111 - PART III Mapping Margins
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Women’s Healing: From Binaries to a Nexus
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Silk in the Age of Marco Polo
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Another Land’s End of Literature: Honorat Bovet and the Timbuktu Effect
153 - PART IV Female Authority: Networks and Influence
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Anne de Bretagne and Anne de France: French Female Networks at the Dawn of the Renaissance
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Staging Female Authority in Chantilly MS 522: Marguerite de Navarre’s La Coche
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Babies and Books: The Holy Kinship as a Way of Thinking about Women’s Power in Late Medieval Northern Europe
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Page Layout and Reading Practices in Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othea: Reading with the Ladies in London, BL, MS Harley 4431
219 - Afterword: A Response to the Volume
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Feminism and Medieval Studies: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Going? Or, What Has Happened to Women in Feminist Studies of the Middle Ages?
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INDEX
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Tabula Gratulatoria
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Keywords for this book
medieval studies; feminism; women's studies; gender studies; feminist scholarship; gender binary; gender roles; sexuality; medieval history; women in medieval history; modernism; key figures
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