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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Kane, Bronach Christina Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Popular memory and gender in medieval England [Texte imprimé] : men, women, and testimony in the church courts, c.1200-1500 / Bronach C. Kane

Publication : Woodbridge (GB) : The Boydell Press, 2019

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-301 p.) ; 24 cm

Collection : Gender in the Middle Ages, ISSN 1742-870X ; 13

Lien à la collection : Gender in the Middle Ages

Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 259-283. Notes bibliogr. Index
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 with domesticity while embedding male memory in the public sphere. It is underpinned by unique records from the church courts of Canterbury and York which preserve vivid testimony from men and women alike, in suits concerning marriage, insult, and debt, as well as tithes, testaments and ecclesiastical rights. From the thirteenth century, Church authorities in Canterbury probed witnesses' memories, asking how they remembered past events, a concern that reached the Court of York in the early 1340s. The book explores the legal and religious developments that generated these memories, which in turn yield precious evidence of the moral and emotional worlds of people at the time

Sujet(s) : Tribunaux ecclésiastiques -- Angleterre (GB) -- Moyen âge Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Mémoire collective -- Angleterre (GB) -- Moyen âge Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Identité sexuelle -- Angleterre (GB) -- Moyen âge Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet