Description
"This book disperses the shadows in an obscure but important landscape. Lisa Bitel addresses both the history of women in early Ireland and the history of myth, legend, and superstition which surrounded them. It is a powerful and exact book and an invaluable addition to our expanding sense of Ireland through the eyes of Irish women."--Eavan Boland, author of In a Time of Violence: Poems"It is refreshing to read in a book by a woman on medieval women that not all clerics hated women and that not all men were oversexed villains consciously bent on exploiting women. [Bitel] challenges not only the medieval Irish male construct of female behavior, but she is also courageous enough to question constructs of medieval women invented by modern Irish medieval historians."--Times Higher Education Supplement
Author: Lisa M. Bitel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 03/26/1998
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.12w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780801485442
ISBN10: 0801485444
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Ireland
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- History | Europe | Medieval
About the Author
Lisa M. Bitel is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland, also from Cornell.