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Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England: Men, Women, and Testimony in the Church Courts, C.1200-1500

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by Bronach C. Kane

    • Author

      Bronach C. Kane

    • Book Format

      Hardcover

    • Publisher

      Boydell Press

    • Published

      May 2019

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      Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England: Men, Women, and Testimony in the Church Courts, C.1200-1500

      Today's Price £45.87



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      An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite.

      WINNER of the Women's History Network 2020 Book Prize

      Church court records offer the most detailed records of everyday life in medieval England for people below the level of the elite. Vivid testimony in cases of marriage, insult, and debt, as well as tithes, testaments and ecclesiastical rights, show how men and women thought about the past and presented their own histories.

      While previous studies of memory in this period have tended to explore formal memory techniques in the schools and monasteries, this book turns to lay contexts instead, considering for the first time how gender influenced the ways that ordinary men and women remembered past events in the centuries leading up to the Reformations. Drawing on legal depositions, supplemented by pastoralia, literature and lyrics, the author argues that despite the many constraints upon their actions, lower-status men and women could use the law to communicate complex and varied pasts. She addresses the legal and religious developments that generated these memories, charting how gender shaped depictions of courtship, sexuality and childbirth, marriage and widowhood, as well as custom and the landscape. The book analyses these themes through the lens of gender and subjectivity, challenging conventional narratives that have aligned female remembrance with domesticity while embedding male memory in the public sphere. This approach offers precious evidence of the gendered, moral, and emotional worlds of lower-status people in medieval England.

      BRONACH C. KANE is Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University.

      Specification

      • Author

        Bronach C. Kane

      • Book Format

        Hardcover

      • Publisher

        Boydell Press

      • Published

        May 2019

      • Weight

        618g

      • Dimensions

        156 x 234 x 20 mm

      • ISBN

        9781783273522

      • ISBN-10

        1783273526

      • Eden Code

        4898080

      More Information

      • Author/Creator: Bronach C. Kane

      • ISBN: 9781783273522

      • Publisher: Boydell Press

      • Release Date: May 2019

      • Weight: 618g

      • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 20 mm

      • Eden Code: 4898080


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