Title: Founding feminisms in medieval studies : essays in honor of E. Jane Burns /
Authors: Doggett, Laine E.; O'Sullivan, Daniel E.; Burns, E. Jane, 1948-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Middle Ages; Feminism; Civilization, Medieval
Contents: Debating gender. Natural and unnatural woman : Melusine inside and out -- Nurturing debate in le Roman de Silence -- The man backing down from the lady in Trobairitz Tensos -- Having fun with women : why a feminist teaches Fabliaux -- Sartorial bodies. Hats and veils : there's no such thing as freedom of choice, and it's a good thing too -- When the knight undresses, his clothing speaks : vestimentary allegories in the works of Baudouin de Conde -- John/Eleanor Rykener revisited -- Mapping margins. Women's healing : from binaries to a nexus -- Silk in the age of Marco Polo -- Another land's end of literature : Honorat Bover and the Timbuktu -- Female authority : networks and influence. Anne de Bretagne and Anne de France : French female networks at the dawn of the Renaissance -- Staging female authority in Chantilly : Marguerite de Navarre's La Coche -- Babies and books : the holy kinship as a way of thinking about women's power in late medieval northen Europe -- Page layout and reading practices in Christine de pisan's Epistre Othea : reading with the ladies in London.