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Women Of The Medieval World: 1100 - 1400 > Literary Patronage > Flashcards

Literary Patronage Flashcards

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Women encouraged and rewarded writers…

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Commissioned books, and had manuscripts made for them

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Female authors made significant…

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Contributions to the literary canon

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The most important single factor in women’s participation in literary culture was…

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The rise of the vernacular, which began developing mid 12th century

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An increasing demand for books in every day language was partly fuelled by…

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A growing number of women wanting to read

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Women sponsored the creation of vernacular texts which both…

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Provided them with reading material and helped spark a literary revolution

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The first known Arthurian romance was written for Eleanor of Aquitaine by…

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Chrétien de Troyes

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The term romance derives from…

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The French ‘romanz’; the language in which the earlier stories were written

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Romances were written in…

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Couplets of rhyming verse

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The themes in romance intersected with…

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Virtually every aspect of social and cultural life

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Royal and aristocratic women played a key role in the transmission of…

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Texts, through cultural exchange via marriage

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Matilda of Scotland (1080-1118)…

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  • commissioned a posthumous biography of her mother Margaret from Turgot of Durham
  • commissioned a Latin account of her ancestors from Benedictine monk William of Malmesbury
  • Malmesbury later wrote that clerks famed in song and poetry flocked to her court
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Adeliza of Louvain (1103-1151)…

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  • chronicler Geffrei Gaimar alluded to her sizeable collection of books
  • owned a bestiary by Phillipe de Thaon
  • commissioned “David” to write a chronicle of her husband’s deeds after his death
  • had many books dedicated to her, including “Voyage de Saint Brendan”
  • what is believed to be her psalter is now in the British Library
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The 12th century has evidence for the first female authors writing in…

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French / Anglo-Norman vernacular

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Marie de France (c. late 12th century)…

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  • wrote in Anglo-Norman French
  • one of the first female writers of French texts known by name and to have celebrity status
  • she wrote 12 lais, books of animal fables, and L’Espurgatoire Seint Patriz
  • translated Aesop’s Fables
  • her female characters were fully developed central figure
  • wrote about werewolves
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Matthew Paris wrote about Edward the Confessor for…

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Eleanor of Provence to inform her of English monarchy when she came to England

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Eleanor of Castile (1241-1290)…

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  • evidence from her household accounts books imply she had her own scribal workshop, employing scribes and illustrators
  • she kept her romance novels in a special box when she travelled
  • read military books and commissioned them for her husband

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