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Erler, Mary Carpenter was born on November 15, 1937 in Tiffin, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Robert Charles and Alice Regina (Kirchner) Carpenter.
(Mary Erler traces networks of female book ownership and e...)
Mary Erler traces networks of female book ownership and exchange which have so far been obscure, and shows how women were responsible for owning as well as circulating devotional books. Seven narratives of individual women who lived between 1350 and 1550 are enclosed by an overview of nuns' reading and their surviving books, and a survey of women who owned the first printed books in England. An appendix lists a number of books not previously attributed to female ownership.
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(Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female trad...)
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 how practices and institutions that ostensibly enabled women in the Middle Ages could sometimes erode their authority as well.This book provides a much-needed theoretical and historical reassessment of medieval women's power. It updates the conclusions from the editors' essential volume on that topic, Women and Power in the Middle Ages, which was published in 1988 and altered the prevailing view of female subservience by correcting the nearly ubiquitous equation of "power" with "public authority." Most scholars now accept a broader definition of power based on the interactions between men and women.In their Introduction, Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski survey the directions in which the study of medieval women's agency has developed in the past fifteen years. Like its predecessor, this volume is richly interdisciplinary. It contains essays by highly regarded scholars of history, literature, and art history, and features seventeen black-and-white illustrations and two maps.
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(Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England traces...)
Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England traces networks of female book ownership and exchange which have so far been obscure, and shows how women were responsible for both owning and circulating devotional books. In seven narratives of individual women who lived between 1350 and 1550, Mary Erler illustrates the ways in which women read and the routes by which they passed books from hand to hand. These stories are prefaced by an overview of nuns' reading and their surviving books, and are followed by a survey of women who owned the first printed books in England. An appendix lists a number of books not previously attributed to religious women's ownership. Erler's narratives also provide studies of female friendship, since they situate women's reading in a network of family and social connections. The book uses bibliography to explore social and intellectual history.
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literature educator researcher
Erler, Mary Carpenter was born on November 15, 1937 in Tiffin, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Robert Charles and Alice Regina (Kirchner) Carpenter.
Bachelor, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1959; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1981.
Instructor, University Texas, Austin, 1966-1967; from assistant professor to professor, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, since 1980.
(Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England traces...)
(Mary Erler traces networks of female book ownership and e...)
(Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female trad...)
Central executive committee Folger Institute. Member Modern Language Association, Medieval Academy American, Early Book Society, Folger Institute.
Married Robert John Erler III, September 21, 1962.