Froissart's Portrayal Of Women And Gender

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FROISSARTS PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN AND GENDER

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Jean Froissart Chronicles is a collection of history a hundred years ago that was written in the 14th century. In the chronicles, Froissart has portrayed women and gender in many and different ways, and how they fit and interact in society. According to the chronicles, several people in ancient Europe used to live in congested little communities. In this kind of setting, womens responsibilities were to ensure that the children were safe, ensure that the food was ready for their family, and filly they had a responsibility to ensure that they tend the animals. In times when the seasons were so busy such as the harvesting season, the women had to ensure that they accompany their male companions to the farms. Women were also involved in industries such as the textile where they could help make clothes, brewing industries where they could make alcohol for their husbands, and finally, the cottage industry. These responsibilities of women in the rural areas were similar to the responsibilities that were given to those women in the cities where they had to help their husbands and fathers in different duties such as craft ship, trading of different goods, and finally, the manufacture of some textile commodities.

The Froissart chronicles goes-ahead to give a preview of the origin of sin according to the biblical view. In his view, the bible has set women to be a weaker species where they were more vulnerable to since. This is simply illustrated where eve is easily lured by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit. He goes ahead to tell that in the middle era, the ladies in the community were controlled based on the biblical illusion about women and their inferiority. Though this narrative came to pass during the birth of Jesus Christ, where the Virgin Mary was like in the center stage of the positivity about women. This is because being the biological mother to Christ she was the one through whom people prayed to for their sins to be forgiven by Jesus. And in her time, she is regarded as the powerful saint through whom people could pray, unlike the narrative that had been created about women and their inferiority in the past.

The chronicles give and illustrations of women with power. This is the kind of woman who has worked hard to ensure that they have overturned the fallacy that women are inferior. Women who have tried to remove the feeling of subversion and oppression from their fellow male counterparts. Initially, women could not be allowed to hold senior positions in churches such as the convent position, the monk position. Though this kind of woman overturned that narrative to decide to take charge of their lost husband and their underage children especially their sons. This narrative of this kind of woman is physically seen in the England history where several powerful queens such as Queen Isabella who worked hand in hand with the husband ad took over when the husband passed away.

It should be similarly noted that while a few women tried to remain powerful, a large number was not. Most women had the direction that their lives could take dictated by a few male individuals in the community. A good example is when it came to the marriage of young girls, the little girl had no say of who she was to marry. The marriage could be arranged, and her role was to accept the proposal after the bridal price was paid and then taken away without her will. The next option for the women was to become church nuns ones they get to a certain age in case they were not willing to get married. This is where the lady could be locked down in a cell and forced to meditate and pray. Most of the women though, could prefer being married and give birth to the man for them to behave a sense of responsibility for their families. Once they had been widowed, they were legally entitled to acquire all the wealth of the man in case he was rich.

In the middle ages, pregnancy and childbirth were risky. Where the child and the mother could easily develop small complications, and the mother dies together with the child. There were very many cases of women dying on childbirth with their children. At those times, special procedures such as the caesarian section had not been learned properly. They were only performed in case the mother had died, and the middle wives needed to check if the child was still alive. Most of the middle wave has no special training in delivery. Though with time they were professionals were brought to help in the safe delivery. They function was also to baptize a child in case he or she was in a critical condition.

In conclusion, there are not many historical article journals that describe the kind of lives that women underwent in the middle age as compared to the articles describing the lives of men in the same period. Though from the few sources that have been brought together it is clear to say that women in that age were resourceful, skilled, hardworking, persevering, and very resilient. This is noted by the kind of lives they are said to have lived and the outcome that is always absorbed. There should also need to create a balance between the few rich women and the many average women who had distinct challenges and equally tried to survive all the humiliation that they faced from the men.

Bibliography

Saunders, Corinne. Women and Warfare in Medieval English Writing.Writing War Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare(2004) 187-212.

Froissart, Jean.The Chronicles of Froissart. Macmillan, 1895.

Saunders, Corinne. Women and Warfare in Medieval English Writing.Writing War Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare(2004) 187-212.

Froissart, Jean.The Chronicles of Froissart. Macmillan, 1895.

Ibid 188

Ibid 169

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