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Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages.

Publication: Albion
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04 		Format: Online - approximately 935 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds. Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 269. $18.95 paper. ISBN 0-8014-8830-3.

This collection of essays originated in a conference convened at Fordham University to revisit issues raised in a 1985 Fordham conference, which itself had led to the influential book by the same editors, Women and Power in the Middle Ages (1988). Both conference/book enterprises had ambitious goals: to articulate fresh perspectives on medieval women with the benefit of the preceding decade and a half of new research and theory. In the present volume, the editors acknowledge that the new essays do not offer a simple formula for examining changes in women's power, but share a suspicion of "the prevailing master narrative for its excessive reliance on political...

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