Medieval Gentlewoman: Life in a Gentry Household in the Later Middle Ages

Swabey, Fiona

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415925118 ISBN 13: 9780415925112

Verlag: Routledge, 1999

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Críticas:

..."this book yields a fascinating perspective of a distant era." -"Bloomsbury Review "[Swabey's] account fires the imagination with details...." -"Publisher's Weekly "An imaginative, concise, and interesting appraisal of late medieval aristocratic widowhood. A must acquisition for general and undergraduate libraries." -"Choice "A leader in this field...." -Caroline Barron, Royal Holloway, University of London "This book is a successful and readable example of how a detailed case study of one woman's life and times can be the springboard for a general look at families, social and religious conventions, and the full context of an upper class widow. Swabey's account of Alice is sympathetic and sensitive and also provides historical analysis of high quality. . . . A very thorough and convincing study." -Joel Rosenthal, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Reseña del editor:

This richly detailed account provides an important addition to current work on women in late medieval England, taking as its starting point the household diary of Alice de Bryene, a Suffolk noblewoman of the late 14th and early 15th century. Like Christine de Pizan, de Bryene enjoyed greater status and influence as a widow and owner of several large estates than most married women of her time, allowing her a remarkable degree of social and financial independence. Moving outward from de Bryene's own life, this illuminating work provides a vivid picture of the medieval household, examining marriage, education, patronage, and the private and public roles of the medieval woman of privilege.