Middle-aged women in the Middle Ages
By: edited by Sue Niebrzydowski
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages -- v. 7
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781843842828
Subjects: Middle-aged women; Middle Aged; Women; Frau; Prejudice; Medieval History; Soziale Situation; Social Values; Mittleres Lebensalter; Gender Identity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-149) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Becoming bene'straw" :; title: the middle-aged woman in the Middle Ages  -- Sue Niebrzydowski; title: Age of discretion :; title: women at forty and beyond  -- Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker; title: Seeking the middle-aged woman in medieval Wales  -- Sara Elin Roberts; title: Middle age in romance? Magic, enchantment and female power  -- Corinne Saunders; title: Age and desire in the Old English Life of St. Mary of Egypt :; title: a queerer time and place?  -- Diane Watt and Clare A. Lees; title: St. Albans Psalter :; title: sex, desire and the middle-aged woman  -- Jane Geddes; title: Speaking volumes :; title: the middle-aged woman and the book in medieval England  -- Carol M. Meale; title: "Late hir seye what sche wyl" :; title: older women's speech and the Book of Margery Kempe  -- Sue Niebrzydowski; title: Preparing for mature years :; title: the case of Margaret of Anjou and her books -- Raluca L. Radulescu.