Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England: Men, Women, and Testimony in the Church Courts, C.1200-1500 (Gender in the Middle Ages, 13, Band 13) - Hardcover

Kane, Bronach C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783273526 ISBN 13: 9781783273522

Verlag: Boydell Press, 2019

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This book considers 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. Previous studies have focussed on mnemonics in universities and monasteries; here, however, the author explores lay contexts instead, focusing on the memories of people below the level of the aristocracy. She also challenges conventional narratives aligning female remembrance with domesticity while embedding male memory in the public sphere. It is underpinned by unique records from the church courts of Canterbury and York which preserve vivid testimony from men and women alike, in suits concerning marriage, insult, and debt, as well as tithes, testaments and ecclesiastical rights. From the thirteenth century, Church authorities in Canterbury probed witnesses' memories, asking how they remembered past events, a concern that reached the Court of York in the early 1340s. The book explores the legal and religious developments that generated these memories, which in turn yield precious evidence of the moral and emotional worlds of people at the time.

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Boydell Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1783273526
• ISBN 13: 9781783273522
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 314
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