Memory and gender in medieval Europe, 900-1200
by Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts
Remembering the past in the Middle Ages is a subject that is usually perceived as a study of chronicles and annals written by monks in monasteries. Following in the footsteps of early Christian historians such as Eusebius and St. Augustine, the medieval chroniclers are thought of as men isolated in their monastic institutions, writing about the world around them.
Elisabeth van Houts forcefully challenges this view, and emphasizes the collaboration between men and women in the memorial tradition of the Middle Ages through both narrative sources (chronicles, saints' lives and miracles) and material culture (objects such as jewellery, memorial stones and sacred vessels).
Men may have dominated the pages of literature from the period, but they would not have had half the stories to write about if women had not told them: thus the remembrance of the past was a human experience shared equally between men and women.
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Historiography, History, Medieval Civilization, Medieval Literature, Memory, Middle Ages, Oral tradition, Sources, Women, Civilization, medieval, Gender identity, Sex rolePlaces
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Memory and gender in medieval Europe, 900-1200
1999, University of Toronto Press
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Memory and gender in medieval Europe, 900-1200
1999, Macmillan Press
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Memory and gender in medieval Europe, 900-1200
1999, University of Toronto Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-186) and index.
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