Reading a variety of texts centred in the power and agency of women
during the period 1385 to 1620, this book examines changing ideals
of gender within the context of changing ideologies of governance
and polity. Together the essays that comprise this book lay out
three lines of thinking about women and polity: that the ideology
of late medieval gender roles articulated in Anglo-French texts of
the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries outlined
important roles for women's voice and agency in supporting the
larger polity as well as the smaller household; that the acceptance
and the value of those roles diminished as models of polity in both
Church and State in England changed in the early modern period;
that to see this change merely in terms of change in expectations
of gender roles is to miss the vital link between the status of
women and the political construction of individual relationship to
authority. Woman is the site on which society delineates the degree
of freedom and independence it will tolerate in the political
subject. The attention directed to women's roles in the plethora of
woman-centred stories, courtesy books, prayer books, sermons and
tracts in the period 1385-1620 is an index to shifting alignments
of power that replaced medieval models of partnership and
co-operation with models of obedience.
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