Framing the Family: Narrative and Representation in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

Table of contents

• Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• List of Illustrations xi
• Introduction 1
• Home Sweet Home 17
• Fathers and Daughters in Holbein's Sketch of Thomas More's Family* 19
• Domestic Rhetors of An Early Modern Family: Female Persuasions in a Woman Killed with Kindness* 39
• The Marital Bed 55
• Purgatory in the Marriage Bed: Conjugal Sodomy in the Gast of Gy* 57
• The Leper in the Master Bedroom: Thinking through a Thirteenth-Century Exemplum 79
• A Marriage Made for Heaven: the Vies Occitanes of Elzear of Sabran and Delphine of Puimichel 101
• Career and Family 117
• Power Couples and Women Writers in Elizabethan England: the Public Voices of Dorcas and Richard Martin and Anne and Hugh Dowriche 119
• An Intimate Look at Baroque Women Artists: Births, Babies, and Biography 1 139
• Model Parents 159
• Constructing the Patriarchal Parent: Fragments of the Biography of Joseph the Carpenter 161
• Fatherhood, Citizenship, and Children's Games in Fifteenth-Century Florence 181
• In the Belly, in the Bower: Divine Maternal Practice in Patience* 193
• Family and Memory 219
• Reframing Gender in Medieval Jewish Images of Circumcision 221
• Marriage and Memory: Images of Marriage Rituals in Early Yiddish Books of Customs 245
• Constructing Family Memory: Three English Funeral Monuments and Patriarchy in the Early Modern Period 273
• About the Editors 293
• About the Contributors 294
• Index 297