Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis
- Author / Editor
- Tinkle, Theresa.
Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Physical Description
- [xvi], 196 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Despite its antifeminist core, medieval exegesis is not "universally misogynistic or patriarchal." Focusing on three historical moments--the age of Augustine, the twelfth century, and the age of Chaucer, including his fifteenth-century reception--Tinkle identifies instances from Jerome and Augustine forward in which "exegetes reject patriarchal power structures and invent their own subversive authority as feminine." Incorporates expanded versions of two of Tinkle's essays on Chaucer, previously printed: "Contested Authority: Jerome and the Wife of Bath on 1 Timothy 2" and "The Wife of Bath's Marginal Authority."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.