Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England: Men, Women, and Testimony in the Church Courts, C.1200-1500

by Bronach C. Kane

This book considers for the first time how gender influenced the ways that "ordinary" men and women remembered past events in the centuries leading up to the Reformations. Previous studies have focussed on mnemonics in universities and monasteries; here, however, the author explores lay contexts instead, focusing on the memories of people below the level of the aristocracy. She also challenges conventional narratives aligning female remembrance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783273526
• ISBN13: 9781783273522
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"