Medieval heroines in history and legend /
Examines varieties of the heroic life as lived by Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Joan of Arc.
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| Format: | CD Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[2002]
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| Series: | Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. lecture 1. Four remarkable medieval women ; lecture 2. The revolutionary twelfth century ; lecture 3. Prodigious Heloise ; lecture 4. Abelard's story of Abelard and Heloise ; lecture 5. Heloise as lover : her sublime submission ; lecture 6. Heloise, adept abbess and mother ; lecture 7. Heloise of the imagination ; lecture 8. Hildegard of Bingen, sibyl of the Rhine ; lecture 9. Hildegard, holy hypochondriac ; lecture 10. Hildegard's visionary trilogy, science, and letters ; lecture 11. Wholly Hildegard ; lecture 12. Eleanor's lineage
- pt. II. lecture 13. Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen of France ; lecture 14. Eleanor and the politics of estrangement ; lecture 15. Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen of England ; lecture 16. Eleanor the dowager queen ; lecture 17. Legendary Eleanor ; lecture 18. Joan of Arc and her times ; lecture 19. Joan discovers her mission and her Dauphin ; lecture 20. Joan the warrior, holy berserker ; lecture 21. Joan's success and captivity ; lecture 22. Joan's trial, death, and retrial ; lecture 23. Joan of the imagination ; lecture 24. Four pioneers.