 | Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages Subjects: Women -- History -- Middle Ages 500–1500; Literature Medieval -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- History -- To 1500; Social history -- Medieval 500–1500; Power (Social sciences); Narration (Rhetoric); Women in literature; Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing... Mary C. Erler is Professor of English and Maryanne Kowaleski is Professor of History at Fordham University. |
