Screen LibraryWomen and Experience in Later Medieval Writing Reading the Book of Life /
This volume examines the common medieval notion of life experience as a source of wisdom and traces that theme through different texts and genres to uncover the fabric of experience woven into the writings by, for, and about women.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Middle Ages |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230620735 |
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This volume examines the common medieval notion of life experience as a source of wisdom and traces that theme through different texts and genres to uncover the fabric of experience woven into the writings by, for, and about women. "The editors of this volume emphasize the importance of 'communities of discourse' in the sharing of knowledge in informal contexts, including domestic settings ...Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing invites us to rethink the perceived dichotomy between male or masculine learning and female or feminine experience. Indeed it goes so far as to challenge its validity. In so doing it invites us to reconsider our very understanding of what constitutes education." - Diane Watt, Professor of English, Aberystwyth University and author of Medieval Women's Writing and Secretaries of God: Wo |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2009. |
| Carrier Form: | 208 p. |
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9780230602878 9780230620735 : 0230620736 : |
| CLC: | I11 |
| Contents: | Experientia and the Construction of Experience in Medieval Writing: An Introduction - Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and Liz Herbert McAvoy * The New Devout and Their Women of Authority - Koen Goudriaan * Partners in Profession: Inwardness, Experience, and Understanding in Heloise and Abelard - Ineke van't Spijker * Communities of Discourse: Religious Authority and the Role of Holy Women in the Later Middle Ages - Carolyn Muessig * Two Women of Experience, Two Men of Letters, and the Book of Life - Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker * "[A]n awngel al clothed in white": Re-reading the Book of Life as The Book |