Medieval Women and Their Objects

by Nancy Mason Bradbury, Jenny Adams, Jenny Adams

The essays gathered in this volume present multifaceted considerations of the intersection of objects and gender within the cultural contexts of late medieval France and England. Some take a material view of objects, showing buildings, books, and pictures as sites of gender negotiation and resistance and as extensions of women's bodies. Others reconsider the concept of objectification in the lives of fictional and historical medieval women by looking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472130145
• ISBN13: 9780472130146
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"