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MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES Sue Niebrzydowski EDITED BY This content downloaded from 155.69.24.171 on Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:40:22 UTC JSTOR Terms and Conditions Gender in the Middle Ages Volume 7 middle-aged women in the middle ages This content downloaded from 155.69.24.171 on Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:40:22 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions (cid:48)(cid:36)(cid:58)(cid:16)(cid:73)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:22)(cid:17)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:20) (cid:21)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:21)(cid:19)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:21)(cid:22)(cid:29)(cid:21)(cid:26)(cid:29)(cid:23)(cid:22) Gender in the Middle Ages ISSN 1742–870X Series Editors Jacqueline Murray Diane Watt Editorial Board Clare Lees Katherine Lewis Karma Lochrie This series investigates the representation and construction of masculinity and femininity in the Middle Ages from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. It aims in particular to explore the diversity of medieval genders, and such interrelated contexts and issues as sexuality, social class, race and ethnicity, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy. Proposals or queries should be sent in the first instance to the editors or to the publisher, at the addresses given below; all submissions will receive prompt and informed consideration. Professor Jacqueline Murray, College of Arts, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, H1G 2W1, Canada Professor Diane Watt, School of English and Languages, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH Boydell & Brewer Limited, PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF, UK Also in this series: I Gender and Medieval Drama, Katie Normington, 2004 II Gender and Petty Crime in Late Medieval England: The Local Courts in Kent, 1460–1560, Karen Jones, 2006 III The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England, Beth Allison Barr, 2008 IV Gender, Nation and Conquest in the Works of William of Malmesbury, Kirsten A. Fenton, 2008 V Monsters, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature, Dana M. Oswald, 2010 VI Medieval Anchoritisms: Gender, Space and the Solitary Life, Liz Herbert McAvoy, 2011 This content downloaded from 155.69.24.171 on Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:40:22 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions (cid:48)(cid:36)(cid:58)(cid:16)(cid:73)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:22)(cid:17)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:21) (cid:21)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:21)(cid:19)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:21)(cid:22)(cid:29)(cid:21)(cid:26)(cid:29)(cid:23)(cid:23) MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES edited by Sue Niebrzydowski D. S. BREWER This content downloaded from 155.69.24.171 on Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:40:22 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions (cid:48)(cid:36)(cid:58)(cid:16)(cid:73)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:22)(cid:17)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:22) (cid:21)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:21)(cid:19)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:21)(cid:22)(cid:29)(cid:21)(cid:26)(cid:29)(cid:23)(cid:23) © Contributors 2011 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner The right of the contributors to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 First published 2011 D. S. 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Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA website: www.boydellandbrewer.co.uk A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The publisher has no responsibility for the continued existence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate Papers used by Boydell & Brewer Ltd are natural, recyclable products made from wood grown in sustainable forests Typeset by Word and Page, Chester Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY This content downloaded from 155.69.24.171 on Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:40:22 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions (cid:48)(cid:36)(cid:58)(cid:16)(cid:73)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:22)(cid:17)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:23) (cid:21)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:21)(cid:19)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:21)(cid:22)(cid:29)(cid:21)(cid:26)(cid:29)(cid:23)(cid:23) CONTENTS List of Plates vii Abbreviations ix Contributors xi Introduction: ‘Becoming bene-straw’: The Middle-Aged Woman in the Middle Ages 1 Sue Niebrzydowski 1. The Age of Discretion: Women at Forty and Beyond 15 Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker 2. Seeking the Middle-Aged Woman in Medieval Wales 25 Sara Elin Roberts 3. Middle Age in Romance? Magic, Enchantment and Female Power 37 Corinne Saunders 4. Age and Desire in the Old English Life of St Mary of Egypt: A Queerer Time and Place? 53 Diane Watt and Clare A. Lees 5. The St Albans Psalter: Sex, Desire and the Middle-Aged Woman 69 Jane Geddes 6. Speaking Volumes: the Middle-Aged Woman and the Book in Medieval England 83 Carol M. Meale 7. ‘Late hir seye what sche wyl’: Older Women’s Speech and the Book of Margery Kempe 101 Sue Niebrzydowski 8. Preparing for Mature Years: the Case of Margaret of Anjou and her Books 115 Raluca L. Radulescu Select Bibliography 139 Index 151 This content downloaded from 155.69.24.171 on Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:43:44 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions (cid:48)(cid:36)(cid:58)(cid:16)(cid:73)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:22)(cid:17)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:24) (cid:21)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:21)(cid:19)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:21)(cid:22)(cid:29)(cid:21)(cid:26)(cid:29)(cid:23)(cid:23) This content downloaded from 155.69.24.171 on Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:43:44 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions (cid:48)(cid:36)(cid:58)(cid:16)(cid:73)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:22)(cid:17)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:25) (cid:21)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:21)(cid:19)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:21)(cid:22)(cid:29)(cid:21)(cid:26)(cid:29)(cid:23)(cid:23) PLATES 1 The Litany, p. 403. St Albans Psalter. Dombibliothek Hildesheim, HS St.God. 1 72 2 ‘The Discourse’, Beatus Vir, p. 72. St Albans Psalter. Dombibliothek Hildesheim, HS St.God. 1 73 3 Psalm 118:33, p. 315. St Albans Psalter. Dombibliothek Hildesheim, HS St.God. 1 74 4 Psalm 36, p. 140. St Albans Psalter. Dombibliothek Hildesheim, HS St.God. 1 77 5 Psalm 51, p. 173. St Albans Psalter. Dombibliothek Hildesheim, HS St.God. 1 78 6 Chanson of Alexis, p. 57. St Albans Psalter. Dombibliothek Hildesheim, HS St.God. 1 81 7 The Lambeth Apocalypse. London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 209, fol. 48r 87 8 London, the Honourable Company of Skinners, The Book of the Fraternity of the Assumption of Our Lady, fol. 34r 88 9 Oxford, Jesus College, MS 124 116 Disclaimer: Some images in the printed version of this book are not available for inclusion in the eBook. To view these images please refer to the printed version of the book. vii This content downloaded from 155.69.24.171 on Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:52:39 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions (cid:48)(cid:36)(cid:58)(cid:16)(cid:73)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:22)(cid:17)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:26) (cid:21)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:21)(cid:19)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:21)(cid:22)(cid:29)(cid:21)(cid:26)(cid:29)(cid:23)(cid:24) viii This content downloaded from 155.69.24.171 on Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:52:39 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions (cid:48)(cid:36)(cid:58)(cid:16)(cid:73)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:22)(cid:17)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:27) (cid:21)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:21)(cid:19)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:21)(cid:22)(cid:29)(cid:21)(cid:26)(cid:29)(cid:23)(cid:24) ABBREVIATIONS EETS es Early English Text Society, Extra Series EETS os Early English Text Society, Ordinary Series EETS ss Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series PL Patrologia Latina, ed. J.-P. Migne (Paris, 1844–65) ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) STC A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of English books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640, first compiled by A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, 2nd edn, revised and enlarged, begun by W. A. Jackson and F. S. Ferguson, completed by Katherine F. Pantzer, with a chronological index by Philip R. Rider, 3 vols. (London: for the Bibliographical Society, 1976–91) ix This content downloaded from 155.69.24.171 on Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:57:10 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions (cid:48)(cid:36)(cid:58)(cid:16)(cid:73)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:22)(cid:17)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:28) (cid:21)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:18)(cid:21)(cid:19)(cid:20)(cid:20)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:21)(cid:22)(cid:29)(cid:21)(cid:26)(cid:29)(cid:23)(cid:24)
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