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The project "Feminine Archetypes in Medieval French Treatises for the Education of Women: Origin, Evolution, Function, and Lexicon" is part of the University Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of La Laguna (IEMyR), where its six researchers are members. Its objective is to study the paradigms of female behavior that are repeated in various medieval works, written in French and intended for the instruction of women, in order to serve as models of conduct. This individual and comparative analysis will be based on the three major thematic axes—restrictive for women—that underlie the misogynistic tradition: the body, feminine spaces, and women's language. These axes form the framework upon which the various textual commentaries are distributed transversally. These archetypes also stem from an earlier tradition, so we are also interested in establishing their origins, evolution, and the function attributed to them, considering the Latin sources from which the medieval French treatises draw. Tracing the origins and evolution of these models in Latin texts will also allow us to appreciate and study the lexicon used to conceptualize the various female stereotypes in the corpus of texts, not only from a diachronic perspective but also from a contrastive Latin-French one. We believe that the results obtained from this project will offer both medievalists and researchers who focus their studies on women's history a rigorous analysis of the female figures that shape idealized female archetypes, their role in medieval society, their origins, and their continuous evolution—essential elements for the history of education as a key component in the history of Western intellectual culture. [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=»Abstract» tab_id=»abstract»][vc_column_text]
The project Feminine Archetypes in French Medieval Treatises for Womens Education: Origin, Evolution, Function and Vocabulary is sponsored by the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas de La Universidad de La Laguna (IEMyR) (Universtiy Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Universidad de La Laguna), to which its six members belong. Its aim is to analyze those paradigms of feminine behavior that appear recurrently in diverse medieval works, written in French and intended for women's instruction, with the purpose of serving as models of conduct. The individual and contrastive examination of the above-mentioned paradigms will focus on three big thematic axes, ie, the body, femine spaces and women's language, all of them restrictive and essentially misogynistic. In turn, these axes will inform the structure which will be transversally applied to the textual commentaries. Morever, since these archetypes derive from a previous tradition, we will also look at the origins, the evolution and the function ascribed to them, paying special attention to the Latin sources on which the Medieval French treatises draw. The exploration of the origins and evolution of these models in the texts written in Latin will allow us to investigate the vocabulary used in the conceptualization of the different feminine stereotypes, both from a diachronic and a Latin-French perspective. The results obtained in this project will be useful for scholars of Medieval Studies and also for those of women's history, since they will offer a thorough analysis of the feminine figures which configure the ideal notions about women, their function in medieval society, their origins and their constant evolution, all of them crucial elements in the history of education understood as a relevant part Western culture.
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