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, 7 Making the M iddle Ages Maistresse of My Wit , M edieval Women Modern Scholars BR.EPOLS Edited by Louise D’Arcens and Juanita Feros Ruys Making the Middle Ages Making the Middle Ages is a series of monographs, and occasionally of collections, which aims to open up the rapidly growing and relatively newly recognised field of ‘medievalism’ - the post-medieval construction of the Middle Ages in scholarship and the arts - to a readership of academics, graduate students and, in the case of some volumes, undergraduates or the general reader. The series is devoted to scholarship in the cultural influence of the Middle Age on England, mainland Europe, and North America from the sixteenth century to the present day. It focuses on two perspectives of medievalism: (i) Mediävistik, the origins and history of medieval studies, both inside and outside the academy; and (ii) Mediävismus, the creation and recreation of the Middle Ages in post-medieval art, history, literature and popular culture. MAISTRESSE OF MY WIT: MEDIEVAL WOMEN, MODERN SCHOLARS This volume explores the reciprocal relationships that can develop between medieval women writers and the modern scholars who study them. Taking up the call to ‘research the researcher’, the authors indicate not only what they bring to their study from their own personal experience, but how their methodologies and ways of thinking about and dealing with the past have been influenced by the medieval women they study. Medieval women writers discussed include those writing in the vernacular such as Christine de Pizan and Margaret Paston, those writing in Latin such as Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, and Birgitta of Sweden, and the works transcribed from women mystics such as Margery Kempe, Hadewijch, and Julian of Norwich. Attention is also given to medieval women as the readers, consumers and patrons of written works. Issues considered in this volume include the place of ethics, interestedness and social justice in contemporary medieval studies, questions of alterity, empathy, essentialism and appropriation in dealing with figures of the medieval past, the permeable boundaries between academic medieval studies and popular medievalism, questions of situatedness and academic voice, and the relationship between feminism and medieval studies. Linked to these issues is the interrelation between medieval women and medieval mer in the production and consumption of written works both for and about women and the implications of this for both female and male readers of those works today. Overarching ail these questions is that of the intellectual and methodological heritage - sometimes ambiguous, perhaps even problematic - that medieval women continue to offer us. Image used within cover design: Peter R. Hupfauf ISBN 2-503-51165-1 9782503511658 The University of Sydney Centre for Medieval Studies 9 782503 5 1 1658 Maistresse of My Wit MAKING THE MIDDLE AGES 7 Making the Middle Ages Volume 7 The Centre for Medieval Studies University of Sydney , Australia Editorial Board Geraldine Barnes (University of Sydney) Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney) Penelope Gay (University of Sydney) David Matthews (University of Newcastle, Australia) Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne) Advisory Board Jiirg Glauser (Universities of Zürich and Basel) Stephen Knight (University of Wales, Cardiff) Ulrich Müller (University of Salzburg) Russell Poole (Massey University, New Zealand) Tom Shippey (Saint Louis University) Richard Utz (University of Northern Iowa) Kathleen Verduin (Hope College, Michigan) Series Editors Geraldine Barnes (University of Sydney) Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney) Editorial Assistants Simon French & Gabrielle Singleton Maistresse of My Wit Medieval Women, Modem Scholars Edited by Louise D’Arcens and Juanita Feros Ruys BREPOLS British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Maistresse of my wit : medieval women, modem scholars. - (Making the Middle Ages ; v. 7) 1 .Women - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500 2.Women- History - Historiography 3.Middle Ages - Historiography 4. Literature, Medieval - Women authors - History and criticism 5. Women and literature - History - To 1500 6.Women in literature I.D'Arcens, Louise II Ruys, Juanita Feros 305.4'0902 ISBN 2503511651 © 2004, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher D/2004/0095/2 ISBN 2-503-51165-1 Printed in the EU on acid-free paper.
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