Author: Catholic Church. Diocese of Lincoln (England). Bishop (1436-1449 : Alnwick)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Visitations, Ecclesiastical
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Records of Visitations Held by William Alnwick
Author: Catholic Church. Diocese of Lincoln (England). Bishop (1436-1449 : Alnwick)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Visitations, Ecclesiastical
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England
Author: Sarah SalihPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0859916227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Medieval virginity theory explored through study of martyrs, nuns and Margery Kempe. This study looks at the question of what it meant to be a virgin in the Middle Ages, and the forms which female virginity took. It begins with the assumptions that there is more to virginity than sexual inexperience, and that virginity may be considered as a gendered identity, a role which is performed rather than biologically determined. The author explores versions of virginity as they appear in medieval saints' lives, in the institutional chastity of nuns, and as shown in the book of Margery Kempe, showing how it can be active, contested, vulnerable but also recoverable. SARAH SALIH teaches in the Department of English at King's College London.
Visitations of Religious Houses in the Diocese of Lincoln
Author: Catholic Church. Diocese of Lincoln (England). Bishop (1420-1431 : Fleming)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Award of William Alnwick, Bishop of Lincoln, AD 1439
Author: Reginald Maxwell WoolleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107448174
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Originally published in 1913, this book presents the Latin text of the 1439 Award of William Alnwick, Bishop of Lincoln from 1436 to 1449. A facing-page English translation is also provided. The text was created at the request of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. Detailed notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in William Alnwick and church history.
A Revelation of Purgatory
Author: Liz Herbert McAvoyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843844710
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Translation and facing text of an important female-authored work from the late middle ages.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing
Author: Carolyn DinshawPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826441
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.
Sodomy in Early Modern Europe
Author: Thomas BetteridgePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719061158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Sodomy in Early Modern Europe is a collection of essays that reflect closely the main areas of debate within gay historiography. In particular, for the last twenty years scholars have questioned the nature of early modern sodomy. The contributors have responded to these questions in a number of different and often apparently contradictory ways, and the essays which make up this collection reflect this diversity of approach. The volume includes essays on sodomy in English Protestant history writing, and sodomy in Calvin’s Geneva and early modern Venice.
Canterbury and York Series
Author: The Fires of Lust
Author: Katherine HarveyPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people. The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much—or too little—sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about who they could have sex with, in what way, how often, and even when, and could be harshly punished for getting it wrong. Other experiences are more familiar. Like us, medieval people faced challenges in finding a suitable partner or trying to get pregnant (or trying not to). They also struggled with many of the same social issues, such as whether prostitution should be legalized. Above all, they shared our fondness for dirty jokes and erotic images. By exploring their sex lives, the book brings ordinary medieval people to life and reveals details of their most personal thoughts and experiences. Ultimately, it provides us with an important and intimate connection to the past.
Wayward Nuns in Medieval Literature
Author: Graciela S. DaichmanPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815623793
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Two of the most fascinating religious figures in medieval literature are Chaucer's Prioress, Madame Eglentyne, and the Archpriest of Hita's Dona Garoza, from his Libro de Buen Amor. Over the years literary critics have interpreted these characters in a variety of ways: from gentle, mildly sinning creatures, to religious failures, to purposefully ambiguous figures with both characteristics. Daichman begins her discussion by focusing on the medieval nunnery as a social institution and finds abundant historical evidence of indecorous behavior among the nuns. Who were the women most likely to transgress their vows? What were the most common transgressions? Why did these women choose convent life in the first place? What we learn is that many women were sent to the convent against their will, or they chose to go there for reasons unrelated to religious vocation. What Daichman has done is trace the pattern of a long-forgotten literary convention, the profligate nun, reviewing first the works of the medieval moralists and satirists on the subject, and then the popular literature of the time with special emphasis on the "chanson de nonne" and the fabliau. She proves the stock character of the Wayward Nun to be as traditional as that of the Gluttonous Monk, the Disobedient Wife, or the Cuckolded Husband. In developing her premise that the profligate nun of the Middle Ages is not an isolated literary occurrence, but the reflection of the woman in the nunnery, Daichman also provides us with a deepened understanding of two well-known literary figures, Dona Garoza and Madame Eglentyne.