By exploring the array of meanings attributed to work for and by women, this project re-evaluates concepts and experiences of work as sites of social, economic, and cultural production in which women’s identities were created and performed between 1100–1800. This collection investigates how the working lives of historical women were enacted and represented, and analyses the relationships that shaped women’s experiences of work across the European premodern period. Women and Work in Premodern Europe: Experiences, Relationships, Cultural Representation, c. For more information, see 'Beyond Wonder' project description link below. Research for ‘Beyond Wonder’ has been supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and national and international competitive funding. It examines shifts in the way emotions shaping experience of intercultural encounter were treated and understood and reflects on their implications for understandings of identity in and beyond France. This project explores representations of emotions of encounter in a French collection of travel narratives and ethnographic texts produced between around 13. 1530, Reading Mélusine explains how and why the texts retained their hold on later medieval imaginations, and explores how the cultural values embedded in the romances facilitated their circulation across France and beyond.īeyond Wonder: Emotions of Encounter in the Medieval World By investigating the patronage, presentation, transmission, and ownership of the surviving corpus of over thirty manuscripts produced between c.
This book examines the historical reception and cultural significance of the popular Mélusine romances, ancestral tales of the Lusignan family which centre on a fairy-dragon and her crusading sons, from the dual perspectives of the French romance manuscripts and their audiences. Reading Mélusine: Romance Manuscripts and their Audiences in Late Medieval Europe, c.
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