Reisende Frauen im Mittelalter: Literarische Reflexionen europaweit, historisch belegte Reisende (Margery Kempe) und Reiseberichte für Frauen (Felix Fabri)

• Autores: Albrecht Classen
• Localización: Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, ISSN 0934-7453, Nº. 34, 1, 2021, págs. 213-236
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • This study examines what we know about traveling women primarily in the Middle Ages. As we know already, many female aristocrats were forced to travel extensively for the purpose of marriage; other women went on long or short pilgrimages; women were certainly involved in wars as support staff and as the warriors’ wives. But we do not have many actual travelogues by women, except by the late medieval mystic Margery Kemp. Her Book thus becomes an important document of a traveling woman. The analysis of her work is then accompanied by a close reading of Felix Fabri’s Sionpilger in which the author creates a mental pilgrimage account for nuns who could not travel but wanted to visit the pilgrimage sites in their minds. There is, in addition, much evidence of traveling women throughout all of medieval literature, whether they journey voluntarily or are forced to do so