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Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage

Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer

By: Katharina M. Wilson,Elizabeth M. Makowski

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Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage

Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer

By: Katharina M. Wilson,Elizabeth M. Makowski

The distrust and hatred of matrimony is a recurring theme in Western literature. In this volume, Wilson and Makowski show that in their repeated imagery, continuous themes, and rhetorical devices, misogamous texts closely parallel and reflect economic and demographic shifts, and theological and legal innovation. Analysis of the literature demonstrates a link between the growing secularism and careerism of the late middle ages and the reduction of women's social status and public options.

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234

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SUNY Press

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079140062X

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9780791400623

English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages

Cloistered Nuns and Their Lawyers, 1293-1540

By: Elizabeth M. Makowski

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English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages

Cloistered Nuns and Their Lawyers, 1293-1540

By: Elizabeth M. Makowski

In late medieval England, cloistered nuns, like all substantial property owners, engaged in nearly constant litigation to defend their holdings. They did so using attorneys (proctors), advocates and other ""men of law"" who actually conducted that litigation in the courts of Church and Crown, following the increased professionalism of legal practitioners during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. However, although lawyers were as crucial to the economic vitality of the nunneries as the patrons who endowed them, their role in protecting, augmenting or depleting monastic assets has never been.

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220

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Boydell Press

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1843837862

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9781843837862

Canon Law and Cloistered Women

Periculoso and Its Commentators, 1298-1545

By: Elizabeth M. Makowski

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Canon Law and Cloistered Women

Periculoso and Its Commentators, 1298-1545

By: Elizabeth M. Makowski

The most thorough examination to date of the landmark decree that mandated strict enclosure of all nuns.

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164

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CUA Press

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0813209498

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9780813209494

Literary Character

The Human Figure in Early English Writing

By: Elizabeth Fowler

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Literary Character

The Human Figure in Early English Writing

By: Elizabeth Fowler

Chaucer introduces the characters of the Knight and the Prioress in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Beginning with these familiar figures, Elizabeth Fowler develops a new method of analyzing literary character. She argues that words generate human figures in our reading minds by reference to paradigmatic cultural models of the person. These models—such as the pilgrim, the conqueror, the maid, the narrator—originate in a variety of cultural spheres. A concept Fowler terms the "social person" is the key to understanding both the literary details of specific characterizations and their indebtedness to history and culture.Drawing on central texts of medieval and early modern England, Fowler demonstrates that literary characters are created by assembling social persons from throughout culture. Her perspective allows her to offer strikingly original readings of works by Chaucer, Langland, Skelton, and Spenser, and to reformulate and resolve several classic interpretive problems. In so doing, she reframes accepted notions of the process and the consequences of reading.Developing insights from law, theology, economic thought, and political philosophy, Fowler's book replaces the traditional view of characters as autonomous individuals with an interpretive approach in which each character is seen as a battle of many archetypes. According to Fowler, the social person provides the template that enables authors to portray, and readers to recognize, the highly complex human figures that literature requires.

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Cornell University Press

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1501724169

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Book's by Elizabeth M. Makowski

Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage

Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage

English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages

English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages

Canon Law and Cloistered Women

Canon Law and Cloistered Women

Literary Character

Literary Character

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