Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures
Author: Eike Grossmann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-06-17
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 3111382982
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Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures
Author: Eike Grossmann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-06-17
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 3111382710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManuscript cultures have frequently forgotten, neglected, or even erased women's contributions from memory. Women's agency has also been a glaring blind spot in the scholarly pursuit of gender perspectives on the production of written artefacts. This volume addresses these lacunae by highlighting manuscripts and inscriptions by and for women, their active participation and enabling sponsorship, and their role in the circulation and dissemination of written artefacts. Seven papers present case studies from East Asian inscriptions to ancient cuneiform epigraphic, Egyptian graffiti from late antiquity to individual specimen and large-scale collections in medieval Europe, focusing on how women participated in and contributed to those. How did they assert their involvement, their claims and their aspirations? By what rationales and mechanisms were they excluded or their contribution marginalised? How did they react to structures that discriminated against them, eventually circumventing, subverting and transforming them? The present volume sheds light on new findings, gives unique insights and discusses methodological considerations in the budding field of women's manuscript studies.
Myth, Montage, & Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture
Author: Marilynn Desmond
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780472031832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA broad multidisciplinary study that uses the Epistre Othea to examine the visual presentation of knowledge
Women and Writing, C.1340-c.1650
Author: Anne Lawrence-Mathers
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1903153328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking its cue from the advances made by recent work on manuscript culture and book history, this volume also includes studies of material evidence, looking at women's participation in the making of books, and the traces they left when they encountered actual volumes. Finally, studies of women's roles in relation to apparently ephemeral texts, such as letters, pamphlets and almanacs, challenge traditional divisions between public and private spheres as well as between manuscript and print --Book Jacket.
"Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350?550 "
Author: JoniM. Hand
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1351536532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor Joni M. Hand sheds light on the reasons women of the Valois courts from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century commissioned devotional manuscripts. Visually interpreting the non-text elements-portraits, coats of arms, and marginalia-as well as the texts, Hand explores how the manuscripts were used to express the women?s religious, political, and/or genealogical concerns. This study is arranged thematically according to the method in which the owner is represented. Recognizing the considerable influence these women had on the appearance of their books, Hand interrogates how the manuscripts became a means of self-expression beyond the realm of devotional practice. She reveals how noblewomen used their private devotional manuscripts as vehicles for self-definition, to reflect familial, political, and social concerns, and to preserve the devotional and cultural traditions of their families. Drawing on documentation of women?s book collections that has been buried within the inventories of their fathers, husbands, or sons, Hand explores how these women contributed to the cultural and spiritual character of the courts, and played an integral role in the formation and evolution of the royal libraries in Northern Europe.
Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660
Author: Marcus Nevitt
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780754641155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn important study of the relationship between female agency and cheap print throughout the revolutionary decades 1640 to 1660, this book offers an analysis of the ways in which groups of non-aristocratic women circumvented a number of assumptions about f
'Grossly Material Things'
Author: Helen Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-05-03
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0199651582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVirginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance. It recovering the ways in which women participated as co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers, booksellers, and readers.
The 1630s
Author: Ian Atherton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2006-09-19
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780719071584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the Caroline era - a period of great importance to English history in the build-up to the Civil War, these essays address politics, religion, the monarchy, culture, literature, and art history.
The History of British Women's Writing, 1690 - 1750
Author: R. Ballaster
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-09-10
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0230298354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened feminism'. It reveals that women engaged in forms old and new, seeking to shape and transform the culture of letters rather than simply reflect or respond to the work of their male contemporaries.
Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies
Author: Rosemary O'Day
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1317886313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen in early modern Britain and colonial America were not the weak husband- and father-dominated characters of popular myth. Quite the reverse, strong women were the norm. They exercised considerable influence as important agents in the social, economic, religious and cultural life of their societies. This book shows how women on both sides of the Atlantic, while accepting a patriarchal system with all its advantages and disadvantages, contrived to carve out for themselves meaningful lives. Unusually it concentrates not only on the making and meaning of marriage, but also upon the partnership between men and women. It also looks at the varied roles – cultural, religious and educational – that women played both inside and outside marriage during the key period 1500-1760. Women emerge as partners, patrons, matchmakers, investors and network builders.
