Reconsidering gender, time and memory in medieval culture

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Reconsidering gender, time and memory in medieval culture

Statement of responsibility

edited by Elizabeth Cox, Liz Herbert McAvoy and Roberta Magnani

Contributor

• Herbert McAvoy, Liz
• Magnani, Roberta
• Cox, Elizabeth

Editor

• Magnani, Roberta
• Herbert McAvoy, Liz
• Cox, Elizabeth

Subject

• Electronic books
• Erinnerung
• Gender identity
• Gender identity -- History -- To 1500
• Gender identity in literature
• Gender identity in literature
• Geschlecht
• History
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist
• Mittelalter
• Queer theory
• Queer theory
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
• Sex in literature
• Sex in literature
• Time perception in literature
• Time perception in literature
• To 1500
• Zeit

Genre

• Electronic books
• History

Language

eng

Summary

The training and use of memory was crucial in medieval culture, given the limited literacy at the time, but to date, very little thought has been given to the complex and disparate ways in which the theory and practices of memory interacted with the inherently unstable concepts of time and gender at the time. The essays in this volume, drawing on approaches from applied poststructural and queer theory among others, reassess those ideologies, meanings and responses generated by the workings of memory within and over "time". Ultimately, they argue for the inherent instability of the traditional gender-time-memory matrix (within which men are configured as the recorders of "history" and women as the repositories of a more inchoate familial and communal knowledge), showing the Middle Ages as a locus for a far more fluid conceptualization of time and memory than has previously been considered. Elizabeth Cox is Lecturer in Old English at Swansea University; Roberta Magnani is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University; Liz Herbert McAvoy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Swansea University. Contributors: Anne E. Bailey, Daisy Black, Elizabeth Cox, Fiona Harris-Stoertz, Ayoush Lazikani, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Pamela E. Morgan, Patricia Skinner, Victoria Turner, William Youngman

Member of

• Gender in the Middle Ages, v. 10

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N$T

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Gender in the Middle Ages

Series volume

volume 10