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title	:	The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages : Papers of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York At Binghamton, 6-7 May 1972
author	:	Morewedge, Rosmarie Thee
publisher	:	State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin	:	087395274X
print isbn13	:	9780873952743
ebook isbn13	:	9780585064918
language	:	English
subject	Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500--Congresses, Social history--Medieval, 500-1500--Congresses, Women--Social conditions--Congresses, Women in literature--Congresses.
publication date	:	1975
lcc	:	HQ1143.R73 1975eb
ddc	:	301.41/2/0902
subject	:	Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500--Congresses, Social history--Medieval, 500-1500--Congresses, Women--Social conditions--Congresses, Women in literature--Congresses.

The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages

Contributors David Herlihy Harvard University Franz H. Buml University of California, Los Angeles Gerard J. Brault Pennsylvania State University Aldo S. Bernardo State University of New York, Binghamton Charity Cannon Willard Ladycliff College Philippe Verdier Universit de Montral

The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages Papers of the sixth annual conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies State University of New York at Binghamton 6-7 May 1972 Edited by Rosmarie Thee Morewedge State University of New York Press Albany 1975

The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages First Edition Published by State University of New York Press 99 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12210 1975 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: The role of woman in the Middle Ages. Includes bibliographical references. 1. WomenHistoryMiddle Ages, 5001500Congresses. 2. WomenSocial conditionsCongresses. 3. Women in literatureCongresses. I. Morewedge, Rosmarie Thee, 1943- ed. II. New York (State). State Uni versity at Binghamton. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. III. Title. HQ1143.R73301.41'2'090274-23227 ISBN 0-87395-274-X ISBN 0-87395-275-8 microfiche

Page v Contents Introduction Rosmarie Thee Morewedge vii Life Expectancies for Women in Medieval Society David Herlihy 1 Transformations of the Heroine: From Epic Heard to Epic Read Franz H. Buml 23 Isolt and Guenevere: Two Twelfth-Century Views of Woman Gerard J. Brault 41 Petrarch's Laura: The Convolutions of a Humanistic Mind Aldo S. Bernardo 65 A Fifteenth-Century View of Women's Role in Medieval Society: Christine de Pizan's Livre des Trois Vertus Charity Cannon Willard 90

Page vi Woman in the Marginalia of Gothic Manuscripts and Related Works Philippe Verdier 121 Illustrations 161 Index 189

Page vii Introduction In spite of the tremendous influence woman is known to have exerted upon numerous facets of medieval civilization, until now her role has not been the subject of a special concerted effort using critical perspectives gained from multidisciplinary approaches. The papers in this volume represent an attempt to develop and to demonstrate the use of such critical perspectives. Before turning to these methodological considerations, let us briefly outline aspects of her role stressed in this work. Taken as a whole, the six essays collected in this volume paint a diversified portrait of the medieval woman. They cover these topics: (1) the factors influencing the span of her life and the value placed upon her existence by society; (2) the interaction of those sociological, historical, anthropological, and literary factors which determined her possible functions in illiterate as well as in literate medieval narrative communities and the literary representations corresponding to these functions; (3) the complex relational possibilities emerging out of various ambivalent thematic, motivic, and structural relationships of her role in the courtly romance; (4) the idealized personal as well as supra-personal feminine image capable of resolving the apparent and potentially conflicting impulses pulling the artist in bifarious directions of antiquity and Christianity; (5) a study of France's first professional woman of letters who was aware that written history has been masculine history, convinced that women are able to play an important role in the

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