Women and gender
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- Women and gender
- Monasticism
- Virgin women seen as holy and sacred.
- Convents were seen as possessing a collective power of prayer stronger than individual prayers.
- Caesaria of Arles, Queen Caratene and Radegund all valued faith above all else.
- Family structure
- Arguably family structures in early middle ages created conditions for women's agency in a new way.
- From 11th c. women increasingly lost their claim on property inherited from parents and husbands - dower.
- Agency of non-aristocratic women varied according to contacts.
- Carolingian reformers tried to restrict ability of women to attend pilgrimages themselves.
- Germanic women occupied crucial place in public life of barbarian tribes.
- However few rights outside of her family's authority.
- In courtly love literature, women remained passive objects of the veneration of men.
- Twelfth-Century Renaissance
- Women sometimes educated at home with tutors but they didn’t enter a world of letters, which was reserved for men.
- Heloise d'Argenteuil viewed as a key figure of women's representation in scholarship.
- After giving birth to their child out of wedlock, Heloise was forced by Abelard to become a nun.
- Convent as a place of refuge/escape?
- Monasticism
- Virgin women seen as holy and sacred.
- Convents were seen as possessing a collective power of prayer stronger than individual prayers.
- Caesaria of Arles, Queen Caratene and Radegund all valued faith above all else.
- Heresy
- Concern about women living an apostolic life.
- Women had to stay inside and own property to retain honour.
- Clare of Assisi wanted to gather many people around her as Francis had done.
- Clare ended up living a more traditional monastic life.
- Clare ended up living a more traditional monastic life.
- Marguerite Porete represents ambition within heretical movement - women having a position on equal terms with men. She was burnt as part of capital punishment.
- Concern about women living an apostolic life.
- Monasticism
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