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Krug, Rebecca

 
9780801474484: Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England
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ISBN 10: 0801474485 ISBN 13: 9780801474484
Editorial: Cornell University Press, 2000

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Rebecca Krug argues that in the later Middle Ages, people defined themselves in terms of family relationships but increasingly saw their social circumstances as being connected to the written word. Complex family dynamics and social configurations motivated women to engage in text-based activities. Although not all or even the majority of women could read and write, it became natural for women to think of writing as a part of everyday life.Reading Families looks at the literate practice of two individual women, Margaret Paston and Margaret Beaufort, and of two communities in which women were central, the Norwich Lollards and the Bridgettines at Syon Abbey. The book begins with Paston's letters, which were written at her husband's request, and ends with devotional texts that describe the spiritual daughterhood of the Bridgettine readers.Scholars often assume that medieval women's participation in literate culture constituted a rejection of patriarchal authority. Krug maintains, however, that for most women learning to engage with the written word served as a practical response to social changes and was not necessarily a revolutionary act.

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Rebecca Krug is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.

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Editorial
Cornell University Press
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0801474485
ISBN 13 
9780801474484
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Número de páginas
256
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