Medieval Heroines in History and Legend - Bonnie Wheeler Audiobook

Written by Bonnie Wheeler
Read by Bonnie Wheeler
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These lectures tell the stories of four remarkable medieval heroines, tracking them through time to see how their reputations were sought, sexualized, sullied, and sometimes sanctified. The story of the French abbess Heloise is inevitably linked to that of her lover, Abelard. The mystic German seer Hildegard of Bingen was a monastic reformer and deeply embroiled in the politics of her day. Her authoritative writings range from doctrine to drama, from science to sex: Collectively, she consolidates inherited patterns of thought in the deepest way. Heloise, on the other hand, outwardly submits to the norms of her culture in her acts but inwardly challenges these norms in her writing: Heloise heralds the arrival of new modes of thought. Eleanor of Aquitaine, as “lord,” lady, mother, and queen of France and then England, scandalized her twelfth-century contemporaries and has fascinated us ever since. Our fourth subject is not noble, not learned, and not long lived. She is, rather, the late-medieval illiterate French peasant girl Joan of Arc, whose life was a brief candle, soon extinguished. Some claim that this virgin-warrior changed the course of European history in her two breathtaking public years as a military and spiritual figure before she was burned at the stake as a heretic at the age of nineteen.

Lectures:
01 - Four Remarkable Medieval Women
02 - The Revolutionary Twelfth Century
03 - Prodigious Heloise
04 - Abelard’s Story of Abelard and Heloise
05 - Heloise as Lover: Her Sublime Submission
06 - Heloise, Adept Abbess and Mother
07 - Heloise of the Imagination
08 - Hildegard of Bingen, Sibyl of the Rhine
09 - Hildegard, Holy Hypochondriac
10 - Hildegard’s Visionary Trilogy, Science, and Letters
11 - Wholly Hildegard
12 - Eleanor’s Lineage
13 - Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen of France
14 - Eleanor and the Politics of Estrangement
15 - Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen of England
16 - Eleanor the Dowager Queen
17 - Legendary Eleanor
18 - Joan of Arc and Her Times
19 - Joan Discovers Her Mission and Her Dauphin
20 - Joan the Warrior, Holy Berserker
21 - Joan’s Success and Captivity
22 - Joan’s Trial, Death, and Retrial
23 - Joan of the Imagination
24 - Four Pioneers

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