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Women of the Medieval World
Julius Kirshner (Edited by), Suzanne Wemple (Edited by)
9780631154921, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 29 May 1987
392 pages
22.9 x 15.4 x 2.1 cm, 0.624 kg
This fascinating volume breaks new ground in examining the status and lives of women in Europe during the Middle Ages, offering revealing new insights into the role of women in a wide range of religious, sexual and domestic affairs. As this book amply demonstrates, women were central to the spiritual life of the medieval Church: Jo Ann McNamara writes on the legacy of miracles in the nunneries of Merovingian Gaul, Suzanne Wemple on one of the most important female monasteries in northern Italy, and Phyllis Roberts on the ideal of the virginal life. But the book is equally concerned with the family and relations between men and women. Leah Lydia Otis, for example, looks at the practice of prostitution in late medieval Perpignan; Helen Rodnite Lemay discusses medieval gynecology; and Julius Kirshner provides a revolutionary study of wives' claims against insolvent husbands, challenging the notion that the legal rights of women deteriorated in late medieval Italy.
Preface vii Abbreviations viii John Hine Mundy: An Appreciation 1 1 Teste David cum Sibylla: The Significance of the Sibylline Tradition in the Middle Ages 7 2 A Legacy of Miracles: Hagiography and Nunneries in Merovingian Gaul 36 3 Bishops as Marital Advisors in the Ninth Century 54 4 S. Salvatore/S. Giulia: A Case Study in the Endowment and Patronage of a Major Female Monastery in Northern Italy 85 5 Stephan Langton’s Ermo de Virginibus 103 6 Ancilla Dei: The Servant as Saint in the Late Middle Ages 119 7 Prostitution and Repentance in Late Medieval Perpignan 137 8 Female Imagery: A Clue to the Role of Joachim’s Order of Fiore 161 9 Queen Sancia of Naples (1286-1345) and the Spiritual Franciscans 179 10 ‘Of the Gift of her Husband’: English Dower and its Consequences in the year 1200 215 11 Wives’ Claims against Insolvent Husbands in Late Medieval Italy 256 12 On the Status of Women in Medieval Sardinia 204 13 Anthonius Guainerius and Medieval Gynocology 317 14 The Problem of Feminism in the Fifteenth Century 337 Select Bibliography of the Writings of John H. Mundy 365 List of Contributors 367 Index 371
Julius Kirshner and Suzanne F. Wemple
Eugene Rice
Bernard McGinn
Jo Ann McNamara
Jane Bishop
Suzanne F. Wemple
Phyllis B. Roberts
Michael Goodigh
Leah Lydia Otis
Stephen Wessley
Ronald G. Musto
Janet Senderowitz Loengard
Julius Kirshner
John Day
Helen Rodnite Lemay
Beatrice Gottlieb
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
