The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures : : New Approaches to German and European Women Writers and to Violence Against Women in Premodern Times / / Albrecht Classen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Classen, Albrecht,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (453 p.)

Die Untersuchung unterzieht die landläufige Forschungsmeinung, Frauen im Mittelalter hätten unter starker Misogynie zu leiden gehabt und sich nur selten in der Öffentlichkeit zu Wort melden können, einer kritischen Analyse. In zehn Kapiteln kommen verschiedene Aspekte und Autor/innen zu Wort, wobei...

Table of Contents

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• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Chapter One. Violence to Women, Women’s Rights, and Their Defenders in Medieval German Literature
• Chapter Two. Women Speak up at the Medieval Court: Gender Roles and Public Influence in Hartmann von Aue’s Erec and Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan and Isolde
• Chapter Three. Women’s Secular and Spiritual Power in the Middle Ages. Two Case Studies: Hildegard von Bingen and Marie de France
• Chapter Four. Gender Crossing, Spiritual Transgression, and the Epistemological Experience of the Divine in Mystical Discourse: Hildegard von Bingen
• Chapter Five. The Winsbeckin – Female Discourse or Male Projection? New Questions to a Middle High German Gendered Didactic Text in Comparison with Christine de Pizan. What do we make out of a female voice within a male dominated textual genre?
• Chapter Six. Domestic Violence in Medieval and Early-Modern German, French, Italian, and English Literature (Marie de France, Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer)
• Chapter Seven. Reading, Listening, and Writing Communities in Late Medieval Women's Dominican Convents. The Mystical Drive Toward the Word. The Testimony of the Sisterbooks
• Chapter Eight. Margery Kempe as a Writer: A Woman's Voice in the Mystical and Literary Discourse
• Chapter Nine. Helene Kottanner: A Fifteenth-Century Eye-Witness Turned Author. The Earliest Medieval Memoirs by a German Woman Writer
• Chapter Ten. Sixteenth-Century Cookbooks, Artes Literature, and Female Voices: Anna Weckerin (Keller) and Sabina Welser
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index