Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture

A consideration of the ways in which the past was framed and remembered in the pre-modern world.

List of contents

Introduction: In principio: The Queer Matrix of Gender, Time and Memory in the Middle Ages - Liz Herbert McAvoy
The Pitfalls of Linear Time: Using the Medieval Female Life-Cycle as an Organizing Strategy - Patricia Skinner
Medieval Expiration Dating? Queer Time and Spatial Dislocation in Aucassin et Nicolette - Victoria Turner
Remembering Birth in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England - Fiona Harris-Stoertz
'Ides gnornode/geomrode giddum': Remembering the Role of a friðusibb in the Retelling of the Fight at Finnsburg in Beowulf - Elizabeth Cox
Remembrance and Time in the Wooing Group - Ayoush Lazikani
Gendered Strategies of Time and Memory in the Writing of Julian of Norwich and the Recluse of Winchester - Liz Herbert McAvoy
Gendered Discourses of Time and Memory in the Cult and Hagiography of William of Norwich - Anne E. Bailey
Re-membering Saintly Relocations: The Rewriting of St Congar's Life within the Gendered Context of Romance Narratives - Pamela E. Morgan
A Man out of Time: Joseph, Time and Space in the N-Town Marian Plays - Daisy Black
Dismembering Gender and Age: Replication, Rebirth, and Remembering in The Phoenix - William Rogers

About the author

Elizabeth Cox, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Roberta Magnani

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Cox, Roberta Magnani, Liz Herbert McAvoy
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Cox (Editor), Roberta Magnani (Editor), Roberta (Author) Magnani (Editor), Liz Herbert McAvoy (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2015
• EAN: 9781843844037
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-403-7
• No. of pages: 215
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: Gender in the Middle Ages; Gender in the Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, HISTORY / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism