Brockport History Faculty Publicationshttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/19532024-03-10T15:08:11Z2024-03-10T15:08:11ZPutting on the Garment of Widowhood: Medieval Widows, Monastic Memory, and Historical WritingClark, Katherinehttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/23842021-11-03T17:39:31Z2010-01-01T00:00:00ZPutting on the Garment of Widowhood: Medieval Widows, Monastic Memory, and Historical Writing
Clark, Katherine
The idea of the widow in communal memory and historical writing was a resonant and multi-faceted concept for monastic writers of the Middle Ages. This essay focuses on the function and meaning of widowhood in two examples of early medieval historical writing, by one male and one female author, to illustrate how monastic authors engaged significant and enduring aspects of widowhood during the Western European Middle Ages to construct institutional histories. Images of female memory and widowed piety (especially because the widow represented the Church who awaited her spouse, Christ) were useful in describing the experiences of women who held important associations for monastic institutions: the resonances of the Scriptural vere vidua transformed female founders’ previous experiences with worldly marriage into a sacralized state of chastity and remembrance in widowhood, and facilitated such women’s presence in the community’s historical memory.
2010-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Bobsled Controversy and Squaw Valley’s Olympic Winter GamesWakefield, Wanda Ellenhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/23822021-11-03T17:39:31Z2006-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Bobsled Controversy and Squaw Valley’s Olympic Winter Games
Wakefield, Wanda Ellen
In 1957, the Squaw Valley Organizing Committee (SVOC) asked to eliminate bobsled due to what it said was the expense of construction and the likelihood that too few nations would enter sleds in the competition to justify the cost. The International Olympic Committee, headed by its President, Avery Brundage, and Chancellor, Otto Mayer, clearly accepted these arguments. They also, in the years between 1957 and 1960, refused to entertain ideas for alternative venues in which the competitions might have been held. Why did they do so? Was there something specific about bobsled that earned their scorn? Was there something about the winter sports in general to which Brundage and Mayer objected? And would the decision to eliminate bobsled races at the 1960 Olympic Winter Games have been different if the bob run had been another field on which to fight the Cold War? The purpose of this paper is to suggest answers to these questions.
This chapter comes from the publication: Cultural Imperialism in Action Critiques in the Global Olympic Trust. The entire book can be found in Drake Library.
2006-01-01T00:00:00ZReview of Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity, eds. Cindy Carlson and Angela Jane WeislClark, Katherinehttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/23832021-11-03T17:39:31Z2000-05-01T00:00:00ZReview of Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity, eds. Cindy Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl
Clark, Katherine
First appeared The Medieval Review 00.05.16, an open access journal, hosted by Indiana University.
2000-05-01T00:00:00ZLincoln Revealed through the Books He ReadDaly, Johnhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/23812021-11-03T17:39:31Z2012-02-01T00:00:00ZLincoln Revealed through the Books He Read
Daly, John
Review of Robert Bray's "Reading with Lincoln".
Citation: John Patrick Daly. Review of Bray, Robert, Reading with Lincoln. H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews. February, 2012. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31935 --- If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the list discussion logs at: http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl.
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