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Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church
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Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church Hardcover - 2005

by Virginia Chieffo Raguin (Editor); Sarah Stanbury (Editor)


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This interdisciplinary collection addresses the location of women and their bequests within the single most important public and social space in pre-Reformation Europe: the Roman Catholic Church. This innovative focus brings attention to gender and space as experienced in the medieval parish as well as in monastic and cathedral space. Through provocative handling of historical content and theory, the contributors explore strategies of exclusion and of inclusion and note patterns of later writers who neglect or rewrite records of female presence. Essays on the York religious cycle, the chronicle of the monastery at Ely, and The Book of Margery Kempe explore how medieval writers used texts as fictive spaces on which to graft responses to the gendered uses of real church buildings. These text-based essays are juxtaposed with tightly focused archival research in art history and history on Florentine patronage and English parish seating, as well as with more broadly synthetic studies on access of women to shrines and on gendered left-right placement in ritual art.

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HENRI LEFEBVRE ARGUES THAT "every society produces . . . its own space."

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  • Title Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church
  • Author Virginia Chieffo Raguin (Editor); Sarah Stanbury (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 271
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
  • Date May 30, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780791463659 / 0791463656
  • Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.34 x 0.86 in (23.72 x 16.10 x 2.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Women's Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500, Women - Religious life - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004048159
  • Dewey Decimal Code 274.050

About the author

Virginia Chieffo Raguin is Professor of Art History at the College of the Holy Cross. She is the author of many books, including The History of Stained Glass: The Art of Light Medieval to Contemporary and Stained Glass in Thirteenth-Century Burgundy.

Sarah Stanbury is Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. Her previous books include Seeing the Gawain-Poet: Description and the Act of Perception and Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory (coedited with Katie Conboy and Nadia Medina).

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