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Women Medievalists and the Academy
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Women Medievalists and the Academy Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition

by Jane Chance (Editor)

From the publisher

Long overlooked in standard reference works, pioneering women medievalists finally receive their due in Women Medievalists and the Academy. This comprehensive edited volume brings to life a diverse collection of inspiring figures through memoirs, biographical essays, and interviews. Covering many different nationalities and academic disciplines--including literature, philology, history, archaeology, art history, theology or religious studies, and philosophy--each essay delves into one woman's life, intellectual contributions, and efforts to succeed in a male-dominated field. Together, these extraordinary personal histories constitute a new standard reference that speaks to a growing interest in women's roles in the development of scholarship and the academy. The collection begins in the eighteenth century with Elizabeth Elstob and continues through to the present day, and includes--among more than seventy profiles--such important figures as Anna Jameson, Lina Eckenstein, Georgiana Goddard King, Eileen [Edna Le Poer] Power, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Whitelock, Susan Mosher Stuard, Marcia Colish, and Caroline Walker Bynum, among others.

Details

  • Title Women Medievalists and the Academy
  • Author Jane Chance (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 1073
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780299207502 / 0299207501
  • Weight 3.78 lbs (1.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.76 x 7.38 x 2.03 in (24.79 x 18.75 x 5.16 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Middle Ages, Women medievalists
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004025225
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Jane Chance is professor of English at Rice University and author or editor of nineteen other books, including Woman as Hero in Old English Literature (1986), Medieval Mythography, volumes 1 and 2 (1994, 2000), and Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (1996). She edits three series, the Boydell and Brewer Library of Medieval Women, the Greenwood Guides to Historic Events in the Medieval World, and the new Praeger Series on the Middle Ages.

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