Books by "Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts"
4 books found
This book follows a middle-class knightly family from France to England in 1066 and its journey over the next six centuries. It focuses on the development in the status and roles of the knight, the roles of women, and the changes in religion from Catholic to Church of England to Puritan.
Wace's Roman de Rou is both a valuable historical document and an important work of French literature. Composed during the 1160s and 1170s, it relates the origins of Normandy from the time of Hasting and Rollo (Rou) and continues as far as the battle of Tinchebray in 1106.
An analysis of the lived experience of Christian married life in Christian medieval Europe, this study examines the process of getting married and wedding celebrations; the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage; and alternative living, including concubinage, polygyny, and the single life.
Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900-1200
by Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts
1999 · University of Toronto Press
Elisabeth van Houts argues that in the Middle Ages, as now, the knowledge of the past was shaped by men as well as women. Men may have dominated the pages of literature but many of the stories they wrote were told to them by women.