St Albans Philippa Byrne4 On the threshold The role of women in Lincolnshire s late medieval parish guilds Claire Kennan5 Beyond the sea medieval mystic space and early modern convents in exile Victoria Blud6 Men on pilgrimage women adrift thoughts on gender in sea narratives from early medieval Ireland Eivor Bekkhus7 Yfallen out of heigh degree Chaucer s Monk and crises of liminal masculinities Martin Laidlaw8 The feminine mystic Margery Kempe s pilgrimage to Rome as an imitatio Birgittae Einat Klafter9 Unbynde her anoone The Lives of St Margaret of Antioch and the lying in space in late medieval England R is n Donohoe10 Gendered spaces and female filth Auda Fabri s mystical heresy Kathryn Loveridge11 Shopping or scrimping The contested space of the household in Middle English devotional literature Louise Campion12 Tombscape the tomb of Lady Joan de Mohun in the crypt of Canterbury cathedral Diane Heath13 Women s visibility and the vocal gaze at windows.

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Gender in Medieval Places, Spaces and Thresholds By Victoria Blud

1909646849

9781909646841

English

265

Hardcover

This collection addresses the concept of gender in the middle ages through the study of place and space exploring how gender and space may be mutually constructive and how individuals and communities make and are made by the places and spaces they inhabit From womb to tomb how are we defined and confined by gender and by space Interrogating the thresholds between sacred and secular public and private enclosure and exposure domestic and political movement and stasis the essays in this interdisciplinary collection draw on current research and contemporary theory to suggest new destinations for future study ChaptersForeword The Virgin of Bethlehem gender and space Anthony BaleIntroduction Victoria Blud Diane Heath and Einat Klafter1 Religious women in the landscape their roles in medieval Canterbury and its hinterland Sheila Sweetinburgh2 Space and place archaeologies of female monasticism in later medieval Ireland Tracy Collins3 Making space for leprous nuns Matthew Paris and the foundation of St Mary de Pr doors and gates in vitae from the thirteenth century Low Countries Hannah Shepherd14 Women in the medieval wall paintings of Canterbury cathedral Jayne Wackett15 Commanding un empty space silence stillness and scopic authority in the York Christ before Herod Daisy BlackAfterword Leonie V Hicks Gender in Medieval Places Spaces and Thresholds.