Gender and power in medieval exegesis
By: Theresa Tinkle.
Series: The new Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780230104358
Subjects: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Middle Ages, 600--1500; Women -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Christian literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism; Power (Social sciences) -- History -- To 1500; Feminist theology
Description: This book analyzes the nexus of gender and power in biblical commentaries from the fifth to the fifteenth century. After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Theresa Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Women on top in medieval exegesis; title: Subversive feminine voices : the reception of 1 Timothy 2 from Jerome to Chaucer; title: Gender trouble in Augustine's Confessions; title: Affective exegesis in the Fleury Slaughter of Iinnocents; title: The Wife of Bath's marginal authority.