Women's Space

Description

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 Through provocative handling of historical content and theory, the contributors explore strategies of exclusion and of inclusion and note patterns of later writers who neglect or rewrite records of female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.

List of Illustrations

Introduction
Sarah Stanbury and Virginia Chieffo Raguin

1. Signs of the Body: Gender, Sexuality, and Space in York and the York Cycle
Ruth Evans

2. Ely's St. Æthelthryth: The Shrine's Enclosure of the Female Body as Symbol for the Inviolability of Monastic Space
Virginia Blanton

3. Margery Kempe and the Arts of Self-Patronage
Sarah Stanbury

4. Real and Imaged Bodies in Architectural Space: The Setting for Margery Kempe's Book
Virginia Chieffo Raguin

5. The Seat under Our Lady: Gender and Seating in Late Medieval English Parish Churches
Katherine L. French

6. Access to Salvation: The Place (and Space) of Women Patrons in Fourteenth-century Florence
Ena Giurescu Heller

7. Gender, Celibacy, and Proscriptions of Sacred Space: Symbol and Practice
Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg

8. Men on the Right/Women on the Left: (A)symmetrical Spaces and Gendered Places
Corine Schleif

List of Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Película fotográfica
• History of art
• Visual culture
• Middle Ages
• History of religions
• Film
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791483718
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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W o m e n ’sS pa c e Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church

Edited by Virginia Chieffo RaguinandSarah Stanbury

WOMEN’S SPACE

Squints in rood screen at church of St. Peter and St. Pau, Lavenham. Photo Virginia Raguin.

SUNY series in Medieva Studies

Paul E. Szarmach, editor

WOMEN’S SPACE

Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church

Edited by virginia chieffo raguin and sarah stanbury

State University of New York Press

Pubished by S U N Y P , A TATE NIVERSITY OF EW ORK RESS LBANY

© 2005 State University of New York

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Women’s space : patronage, pace, and gender in the medieva church / edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Sarah Stanbury. p. cm. — (SUNY series in medieva studies) Incudes bibiographica references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6365-6 (ak. paper) 1. Women—Reigious ife—History. 2. Church history—Midde Ages, 600–1500. I. Raguin, Virginia Chieffo, 1941– II. Stanbury, Sarah. III. Series.

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List of Iustrations

CONTENTS

Introduction Sarah Stanbury and Virginia Chieffo Raguin

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Signs of the Body: Gender, Sexuaity, and Space in York and the York Cyce Ruth Evans

Ey’s St. Æthethryth: The Shrine’s Encosure of the Femae Body as Symbo for the Invioabiity of Monastic Space Virginia Blanton

Margery Kempe and the Arts of Sef-Patronage Sarah Stanbury

Rea and Imaged Bodies in Architectura Space: The Setting for Margery Kempe’sBook Virginia Chieffo Raguin

The Seat under Our Lady: Gender and Seating in Late Medieva Engish Parish Churches Katherine L. French

Access to Savation: The Pace (and Space) of Women Patrons in Fourteenth-century Forence Ena Giurescu Heller

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Gender, Ceibacy, and Proscriptions of Sacred Space: Symbo and Practice Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg

Men on the Right—Women on the Left: (A)symmetrica Spaces and Gendered Paces Corine Schleif

List of Contributors

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece. Squints in rood screen at Church of St. Peter and St. Pau, Lavenham. 2.1.Miracle of Æthelthryth’s Resistance to Ecgfrith’s Desire,1330s? Octagon Capita, Ey Cathedra, Ey, Engand. 59 3.1. Fint inscription, ca. 1496, “Pray for ye sowe of Wiiam Copton esqwyer . . . ,” Lady Chape, Hoy Trinity Church, Long Meford. 81 3.2. Eizabeth Tabot and Eizabeth Tiney, ate fteenth century, Hoy Trinity Church, Long Meford. 82 3.3. Lady of Pity, with donor, ate fteenth century, Hoy Trinity Church, Long Meford. 87 3.4. Trinity, ate fteenth century, Hoy Trinity Church, Long Meford. 92 3.5. Aabaster Trinity, 1400–1450, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 93 3.6. Trinity Man of Sorrows with donor John Waker, ate fteenth century, Hoy Trinity Goodramgate, York. 95 4.1. King’s Lynn, St. Margaret’s, exterior, south side. After Wiiam Tayor,The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844). 106 4.2. King’s Lynn, St. Margaret’s, pan 1102–1481, ength 236 feet. After E. M. Beoe, F.S.A.,Our Borough: Our Churches: King’s Lynn, Norfolk (Cambridge, 1899). 107 4.3. King’s Lynn, St. Margaret’s, interior of choir, south side. After Wiiam Tayor,The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844). 108

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Mary of Burgundy at Prayer,Hours of Mary of Burgundy, ca. 1477, Vienna Österreichische Nationabibiothek, Cod. Vind. 1857, fo. 14v. 110 Phiip the Good Attending Mass, Traité sur l’oraison dominicale, trans. Jean Miéot, Lie(?), ca. 1460, Brusses, Roya Library, MS 9092, fo. 9. 111 Margaret Tudorat Prayer, Book of Hours of James IV, ca. 1503, Vienna Österreichische Nationabibiothek, Cod. 1897, fo. 243v. 112 Christ the Good Shepherd, Ebsdorf, Benedictine nunnery, Coister window, 1400–1410. 118 Parabe of Vine-dressers,Speculum humanae salvationis, ca. 1360, Darmstadt, Hessische Landes und Hochschubibiothek Hs 2505, fo. 41. 120 Parabe of Vine-dressers, Ebsdorf, Benedictine nunnery, Coister window, 1400–1410. 121 Brass of Adam de Wasoken and wife Margaret, 1349, St. Margaret’s, King’s Lynn, Detai of bottom, men carry grist to mi and carry Wasoken in itter over stream. After John Se Cotman,Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk127Bohn, 1838).  (London: Brass of Robert Braunche with Leticia, rst, and Margaret, second wife, 1364, St. Margaret’s, King’s Lynn, Detai of bottom, Peacock Feast. After John Se Cotman,Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk (London: 1838). 128 Santa Maria Novea, Forence, facade of the church. 162 Santa Maria Novea, Forence, pan of the church in the fourteenth century. After James Wood Brown,The Dominican Church of Santa Maria Novella of Florence1902). 163 (Edinburgh, Sacristy, interior view, Santa Maria Novea, Forence. 164 Giovanni de Biondo,Annunciation and Saints, ca. 1385, tempera on pane, Accademia, Forence. 165 Itaian Schoo,Apparition of St. Michael1330s, fresco, (detai), Veuti Chape, Santa Croce, Forence. 170 Jan van Eyck,Altarpiece of the Lamb, cosed, 1432, Cathedra of St. Bavo, Ghent. After Hermann Beenken, Hubert und Jan Van Eyck208. (Munich: Bruckman, 1941). Jan van Eyck,Altarpiece of the Lamb, open, 1432, Cathedra of St. Bavo, Ghent. 209

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Rogier van der Weyden,Last Judgment Altarpiece, cosed, after 1433, Musée de ’Hôte Dieu, Beaune. 209 Rogier van der Weyden,Last Judgment Altarpiece, open, after 1433, Musée de ’Hôte Dieu, Beaune. 210 Crucixion, Herrad of Hohenbourg’sHortus deliciarum. Nineteenth-century copy of destroyed origina, ca.1180–95. After A. Straub and G. Keer,Herrade de Landsberg, Hortvs Deliciarvmand Schweikhardt: Strasbourg, 1879–99). 214 (Schesier Attributed to Hans Schäufeein,Crucixion, 1520, oi on pane, Coegiate Church, Tübingen. 215 Wise and Foolish Virgins, ca. 1130, stone scupture, archivots over the centra west porta, Saint-Pierre, Aunay. 216 Jakob Esner, miniature showing the Synthronoi Trinity, Kreß Missa, 1513. Germanisches Nationamuseum, Nuremberg, Hs 113264, fo. 2v. 217 Christ and Six Apostles, north choir encosure, ca. 1200, stucco, Liebfrauenkirche, Haberstadt. 218 Virgin and Six Apostles, south choir encosure, ca. 1200, stucco, Liebfrauenkirche, Haberstadt. 218 Virgin and Apostles with Saint Benedict, north choir encosure, ca. 1200, stucco, St. Michaeskirche, Hidesheim. 219 Mae and Femae Martyrs, ca. 490, mosaic, Sant’ Apoinare Nuovo, Ravenna. 219 Gregor Erhart,Madonna Misericordia, 1510–14, stone scupture, Wafahrtskirche, Frauenstein (Austria). 221 Emperor Justinian with Entourage, ca. 547, mosaic, north side of choir, San Vitae, Ravenna. 222 Empress Theodora with Entourage, ca. 547, mosaic, south side of choir, San Vitae, Ravenna. 223 Savonarola Preaching in Florence Cathedral, 1496, woodcut iustration fromCompendio di Revelatione dello inutile servo di Iesu Cristo Frate Hieronymo da Ferrara.227 Sano di Pietro,San Bernardino Preaching in Piazza San Francesco in Siena, 1444–50, tempera on pane, Siena Cathedra. 228 Sano di Pietro,San Bernardino Preaching in the Piazza del Campo229, 1444–50, tempera on pane, Siena Cathedra.