Gender and Literacy: the participation of women in book culture in England and Francia, c.650 - c.950

性别与识字率：英国和法国女性参与图书文化，约 650 年 - 约 950 年

• 批准号: 2269585
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2269585
• 关键词: Gender; Literacy; participation; women; book

This project will explore women's participation in the production and consumption of books, facilitated and sustained by literate networks in early medieval England and Francia. Building upon previous scholarship, it seeks to push the boundaries of what we think we know about gender roles and women's agency by exploring how powerful queens and abbesses influenced literary output in pursuit of their strategies and aims, and the extent to which they were successful. Through analysis of texts which provide evidence of women's involvement in book culture, including letters, wills and hagiographies, and the study of extant manuscripts created and used by women, this project will explore the varied roles women played as patrons, scribes, authors, owners and custodians of books. It aims to analyse how and the extent to which women's participation in book culture changed between 650 and 950, identifying and exploring any discernible geographical differences. It will also investigate what women's involvement can reveal about the nature of the networks of book production themselves, alongside exploring what the roles women played within these networks suggest about gender roles and women's agency in early medieval society more widely. Placing gender at the heart of its analysis, this research seeks to contribute to feminist scholarship, asserting not only the importance of women's lived experiences to the study of early medieval societies, but also the significance of constructions of gender. This study will be the first to conduct a sustained analysis of women and book culture in both England and Francia from the mid-seventh to the mid-tenth century. Thus, it will be in a unique position to explore both temporal and geographic change and differences, making an original contribution to the study of education, literacy and the networks of book production, and enhancing understandings of early medieval culture more widely.

该项目将探索妇女参与书籍的生产和消费，并由中世纪早期英格兰和弗朗西亚的识字网络促进和维持。在先前的奖学金的基础上，它试图通过探索强大的皇后和妇女代理来推动我们认为对性别角色和妇女代理的了解的界限，以探索强大的皇后和妇女的妇女皇后和妇女的影响如何影响文学成果，以追求其战略和目标，以及他们成功的程度。通过分析妇女参与图书文化的证据，包括信件，遗嘱和杂乱无章的证据，以及对妇女创建和使用的现存手稿的研究，该项目将探索女性作为顾客，文士，作家，所有者，所有者和书籍的角色。它旨在分析​​妇女参与书籍文化的方式和程度，在650至950之间发生了变化，以识别和探索任何明显的地理差异。它还将调查妇女的参与可以揭示自己的书籍网络本身的性质，并探讨女性在这些网络中扮演的角色，提出了有关中世纪早期社会中性别角色和妇女代理的角色。这项研究将性别置于其分析的核心，旨在为女权主义的学术做出贡献，不仅断言妇女的生活经验对研究中世纪早期社会的研究的重要性，而且主张性别建构的重要性。这项研究将是第一个从七世纪中叶到十世纪中叶对英格兰和弗朗西亚的妇女和书籍文化进行持续分析的研究。因此，探索时间和地理变化和差异，对教育，扫盲和书籍生产网络做出原始贡献，并更广泛地增强对中世纪早期文化的理解，这将处于独特的位置。