Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2911
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): van Houts , Elisabeth.
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  • Title: Introduction: Medieval Memories [the author provides a brief overview of the themes explored in the book's essays; she considers the ways that gender informed the writing of history and the remembrance of the dead within the contexts of the aristocracy, authority, family, rites for the dead, prophecy of the future, and memory in art].
  • Source: Medieval Memories: Men, Women, and the Past, 700-1300.  Edited by Elisabeth van Houts.  Women and Men in History Series. Longman, 2001.  Pages 1 - 16.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Commemoration Dead Family Gender Historiography Memory
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  • Geographic Area: General
  • Century: 8- 9- 10- 11- 12- 13
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  • Author's Affiliation: Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
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  • Year of Publication: 2001.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0582369029