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The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures - New Approaches to German and European Women Writers and to Violence Against Women in Premodern Times (Hardcover)
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The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures - New Approaches to German and European Women Writers and to Violence Against Women in Premodern Times (Hardcover)
Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
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The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the
Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their
voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical
analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the
question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and
male - are heard. The study opens with an enquiry into violence
against women, including in texts by male writers (Hartmann von
Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach) which indeed
describe instances of violence, but adopt an extremely critical
stance towards them. It then proceeds to show how women were able
to develop an independent identity in various genres and could
present themselves as authorities in the public eye. Mystic texts
by Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France and Margery Kempe, the
medieval conduct poem known as Die Winsbeckin, the Devout Books of
Sisters composed in convents in South-West Germany, but also
quasi-historical documents such as the memoirs of Helene Kottaner
or Anna Weckerin's cookery book, demonstrate that far more women
were in the public gaze than had hitherto been assumed and that
they possessed the self-confidence to establish their positions
with their intellectual and their literary achievements."
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