| Summary: | Misogyny is of course not the whole story of medieval discourse on women: medieval culture also envisaged a `case for women'. But hitherto studies of profeminine attitudes in that period's culture have tended to concentrate on courtly literature or on female visionary writings or on attempts to transcend misogyny by major authors such as Chaucer and Christine de Pizan. This book sets out to demonstrate something different: that there existed from early in the Middle Ages a corpus of PUBarchitectureArt History70.00medieval historyLEARNEDS98 |t Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities - History (on display)0AJ`Reilly's book can be recommended as a solid, reliable ... study.'W. Cahn, CHOICE |d 27/07/1999`Her [Reilly] work as a whole puts into practice the sort of historical approach outlined by Marvin Trachtenberg that seeks "a critical reconstruction of the individual event of electric reinterpretation and recombination, which formed the core of the creative process". Peterborough becomes the thoughtful expression in stone, wood, and light of a complex identity that was historical, political, religious, local and universal.'Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |d 03/04/2001`impressive sensitivity to nuances of form and compostion'Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |d 03/04/2001`valuable survey of the turbulent post-Conquest period'Journal of the Society of Architec not to be confused with `feminism' in a modern sense) to medieval constructions of gender is throughout critically assessed, and the book concludes by asking how far defenders were controlled by, or able to query, assumptions about what was `natural' (and therefore imagined inflexible) in gender theory.
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