Brides and Doom
Title | Brides and Doom PDF eBook |
Author | Jerold C. Frakes |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
Examines gender issues that appear in the heroic epics Nibelungenlied, Diu Dlage, and Kudrun, all of which revolve around women. Reviews the conventional scholarship, and discusses property and power, intimate conversations and political strategies, Teuton as Amazon, sovereignty and class, and other topics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Women as Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages
Title | Women as Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Albrecht Classen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Civilization, Medieval, in literature |
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The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany
Title | The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia J. Cyrus |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0802093698 |
Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions of how manuscripts circulated in the late medieval period.
The History of Women in Germany from Medieval Times to the Present
Title | The History of Women in Germany from Medieval Times to the Present PDF eBook |
Author | Helena Cole |
Publisher | |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN |
Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany
Title | Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Jamie Page |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2021-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0192607561 |
Prostitution played an important part in structuring gender relations in medieval Germany. Prostitutes were often viewed as an example of the extreme female sinfulness which all women risked falling into, yet their social role was also seen as vital to the unmarried men for whom they provided a sexual outlet. Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany is the first full-length study of medieval prostitution to focus primarily on how gender discourse shaped the lives of prostitutes themselves. Based on three legal case studies from the late medieval Empire, Prostitutes and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany examines constructions of subjectivity between 1400 and 1500. This period saw the rapid rise of tolerated prostitution across much of western Europe and the emergence of the public brothel as a central institution in the regulation of social order, followed by its equally rapid suppression from the early 1500s. By analysing how individuals interacted with cultural discourses surrounding the body, sexuality, and sin, the book explores how the concepts which defined prostitution in the Middle Ages shaped individual lives, and how individuals were able - or not - to exert agency, both within the circumstances of their own lives, and in response to official attempts to regulate sexual behaviour.
Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women
Title | Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Medieval Institute Publications |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2010-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1580445004 |
This sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts that advance our understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late medieval German-speaking world. Three of the translated texts are fiction. Additionally, there is a religious treatise, a religious legend, an inventory of books, and a legal document. While each of these texts is instructive in and of itself, they gain in complexity when brought into dialogue with one another.
Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry
Title | Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Albrecht Classen |
Publisher | DS Brewer |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781843840213 |
A considerable collection of German women's poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research.