women's literacy in a men's church
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hemptinne, Therese > [ed.]
- Creator
- Gongora, Eugenia > [ed.]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6045 - B
- Thesaurus
- religie, geleerde vrouwen, schrijvers, begijnen, heiligen, rooms-katholicisme, middeleeuwen, Nederland, België, bundel
- Description
- This book aims to collect and present the results of research done within the context of the project 'The voice of silence / La voz del silencio: An interdisciplinary research project about literate women and women authors in the West-European late Middle Ages from a gender perspective'. In the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the voices of women authors, many of them religious and mystics, resounded again in a literate society dominated by clerics. Two of the most famous representatives of this 'female voice', Hadewych and Hildegard von Bingen, are highlighted in Part I. These women were the forerunners of a new reading culture among (semi-) religious and even lay women in which the use of the vernacular was a decisive factor. From the thirteenth century onwards men once more tried to get a grip on women's reading and writing .