Wisdom from the Middle Ages for Middle-Aged Women
Title | Wisdom from the Middle Ages for Middle-Aged Women PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa B. Hamilton |
Publisher | Church Publishing, Inc. |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2007-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0819222372 |
As this useful collection of writings proves, Medieval mystics have much wisdom to offer contemporary middle-aged women grappling with empty nests, evolving careers, spiritual growth, and physical issues.
Middle-aged Women in the Middle Ages
Title | Middle-aged Women in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Sue Niebrzydowski |
Publisher | DS Brewer |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1843842823 |
The phenomenon of medieval women's middle age is a stage in the lifecycle that has been frequently overlooked in preference for the examination of female youth and old age. The essays collected here draw variously from literary studies, history, law, art and theology in order to address this lacuna.
Wisdom from the Middle Ages for Middle-Aged Women
Title | Wisdom from the Middle Ages for Middle-Aged Women PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa B. Hamilton |
Publisher | Church Publishing, Inc. |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2007-09-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0819226645 |
Medieval mystics have much wisdom to offer contemporary middle-aged women grappling with empty nests, evolving careers and relationships, spiritual growth, and physical issues. Mechthild, for example, began her writing career at the age of fifty. And Julian, referring to Christ as “our kind mother, our gracious mother,” has a vision of Christ allowing us to make mistakes, a helpful image for women mothering nearly adult children. Each chapter focuses on a topic of interest to modern middle-aged women. Useful for individuals and groups.
Love and Trouble
Title | Love and Trouble PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Dederer |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2017-05-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1101946512 |
Blazingly intelligent, wickedly funny, and piercingly honest, a memoir that captures the perils and pleasures of girlhood, womanhood, and life itself. “One of my favorite books of the last few years.” —Cheryl Strayed “Sentence for sentence, a more pleasure-yielding midlife memoir is hard to think of.” —The Atlantic At mid-life, Claire Dederer developed a sudden yearning for jailbreak. In this exuberant memoir, she reflects on two periods in her life uncannily similar in their emotional intensity: her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of unruly and mysterious new hungers, and her recollections of herself as a teenager.
Middle Age: Our Road to Inner Wisdom
Title | Middle Age: Our Road to Inner Wisdom PDF eBook |
Author | Marina Oppenheimer |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2014-12-25 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9781505746129 |
This is a book where issues of life at middle age are explored; issues that have to do with the empty nest syndrome, marriage, divorce, adult children, friends, loneliness, and life's purpose in the second half of life.
Women and Power in the Middle Ages
Title | Women and Power in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Erler |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820323810 |
Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority--violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of civic life through the exercise of law and force. The wives and consorts of these powerful men have generally been viewed as decorative attendants, while common women were presumed to have had no power or consequence. Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped such portrayals, Women and Power in the Middle Ages reveals the varied manifestations of female power in the medieval household and community--from the cultural power wielded by the wives of Venetian patriarchs to the economic power of English peasant women and the religious power of female saints. Among the specific topics addresses are Griselda's manipulation of silence as power in Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale"; the extensive networks of influence devised by Lady Honor Lisle; and the role of medieval women book owners as arbiters of lay piety and ambassadors of culture. In every case, the essays seek to transcend simple polarities of public and private, male and female, in order to provide a more realistic analysis of the workings of power in feudal society.
A Glorious Freedom
Title | A Glorious Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Congdon |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2017-10-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1452156212 |
“The remarkable women celebrated in [this] vibrantly illustrated collection . . . offer stirring words of encouragement to any woman, of any age” (Booklist). The glory of growing older is the freedom to be more truly ourselves. With age we gain the confidence to pursue bold new endeavors and worry less about what other people think. In this richly illustrated volume, bestselling author and artist Lisa Congdon explores the power of women over the age of forty who are thriving and living life on their own terms. A Glorious Freedom includes profiles, interviews, and essays from women such as Vera Wang, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Julia Child, Cheryl Strayed, and many others who have found creative fulfillment and accomplished great things in the second half of their lives. Each section is lavishly illustrated and hand-lettered in Congdon's signature style.