Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns

276 Pages·2016·20.675 MB·English

by  Daniel E. O'Sullivan (editor)

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E. Jane Burns, courtesy of Ned Burns
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FOUNDING FEMINISMS
IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF E. JANE BURNS
Edited by
LAINE E. DOGGETT AND DANIEL E. O’SULLIVAN
D. S. BREWER
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
List of Contributors xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction: The Work of E. Jane Burns and the Feminisms of Medieval
Studies 1
Laine E. Doggett and Daniel E. O’Sullivan
E. Jane Burns: A Bibliography 15
Part I: Debating Gender
Natural and Unnatural Woman: Melusine Inside and Out 21
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
Nurturing Debate in Le Roman de Silence 33
Kristin L. Burr
The Man Backing Down from the Lady in Trobairitz Tensos 45
Daniel E. O’Sullivan
Having Fun with Women: Why a Feminist Teaches Fabliaux 61
Lisa Perfetti
Part II: Sartorial Bodies
Hats and Veils: There’s No Such Thing as Freedom of Choice, And It’s a
Good Thing Too 73
Madeline H. Caviness
When the Knight Undresses, his Clothing Speaks: Vestimentary
Allegories in the Works of Baudouin de Condé (c. 1240–1280) 97
Sarah- Grace Heller
John/Eleanor Rykener Revisited 111
Ruth Mazo Karras and Tom Linkinen
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viii CONTENTS
Part III: Mapping Margins
Women’s Healing: From Binaries to a Nexus 125
Laine E. Doggett
Silk in the Age of Marco Polo 141
Sharon Kinoshita
Another Land’s End of Literature: Honorat Bovet and the Timbuktu
Effect 153
Helen Solterer
Part IV: Female Authority: Networks and Influence
Anne de Bretagne and Anne de France: French Female Networks at the
Dawn of the Renaissance 171
Cynthia J. Brown
Staging Female Authority in Chantilly MS 522: Marguerite de
Navarre’s La Coche 187
Roberta L. Krueger
Babies and Books: The Holy Kinship as a Way of Thinking About
Women’s Power in Late Medieval Northern Europe 205
Ann Marie Rasmussen
Page Layout and Reading Practices in Christine de Pisan’s Epistre
Othea: Reading with the Ladies in London, BL, MS Harley 4431 219
Nancy Freeman Regalado
Afterword: A Response to the Volume
Feminism and Medieval Studies: Where Have We Been, Where
Are We Now, and Where Are We Going? Or, What Has Happened
to Women in Feminist Studies of the Middle Ages? 237
Elizabeth Robertson
Index 247
Tabula Gratulatoria 255
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Madeline H. Caviness, “Hats and Veils”
Fig. 1. P rostitutes greeting the Prodigal Son (after Deremble, 76
Les vitraux narratifs, fig. 68, by permission of the author)
Fig. 2. A woman of reduced legal capacity. Sachsenspiegel III.47. 77
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, MS Cod. Guelf. 3.1
Aug. 2o, fol. 48r, register 5, detail (photo. HAB, by permission)
Fig. 3. Mary Magdalene recognizing Christ risen (after Deremble 78
Les vitraux narratifs, fig. 13, by permission of the author)
Fig. 4. The Three Kings (Magi) journeying (after Caviness, Windows, 79
fig. 149)
Fig. 5. Seal of the Jews in Augsburg. Plaster cast in the 80
Hohenlohe- Waldenburg Schlossmuseum, Städtische Archiv
(after Friedenberg, Medieval Jewish Seals, 1987, entry 79, p. 171,
by permission of the publisher)
Fig. 6a. Men and women wearing Jewish hats. Wenzel Bible, Bavaria, 82
Vienna Österreischische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 2759–2764,
vol. III, fol. 112v (photo. ONB, by permission)
Fig. 6b. Man and woman in “Jewish hats.” Peter Comestor, 83
Historia evangelica. Freiburg in Breisgau, Karlsruhe,
Badische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Tennenbach 8, fol. 75r
(photo. BLB, by permission)
Fig. 7. Jewish men and women riding on Elijah’s ass into 84
Jerusalem. Library of Congress Hebr. MS 1, fol. 19v
(photo. Courtesy of the Hebraic Division of the
Library of Congress)
Fig. 8. Married and unmarried daughters dividing their inheritance. 85
Sachsenspiegel I.3. Wolfenbüttel, fol. 11v reg 5, detail
(photo. HAB, by permission)
Fig. 9. Statue of Mary of Egypt or Mary Magdalene 86
(photo. Jean- Gilles Berizzi licensed by Art Resource)
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