{"id":9796,"date":"2017-08-02T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T22:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9796"},"modified":"2017-08-02T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T22:40:12","slug":"medieval-women-were-not-waifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9796","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Women Were Not Waifs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new exhibit at the Getty offers a revealing look at <a href=\"https:\/\/thebestschools.org\/review\/illuminating-women-in-the-medieval-world\/\">women from the Middle Ages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With an understandable weariness, the exhibition\u2019s creators acknowledge, both on the introductory museum label and catalogue book jacket, that most people imagine medieval women as damsels in distress, being rescued perhaps by a dragon-\u00adhunting St. George. One has to meet the popular mind, fattened by dismissals of the Middle Ages (\u201ca world lit only by fire\u201d), where it unfortunately lags. But to slay this myth as surely as St. George speared his dragon, the curators unfurled manu\u00adscripts of a different, lesser known legend, that of St. Margaret. Consumed by a dragon, Margaret\u00a0<a title=\"Saint Margaret, by Lieven van Lathem (Flemish, about 1430\u20131493)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/art\/collection\/objects\/1663\/lieven-van-lathem-saint-margaret-flemish-1469\/\">ripped her way out of his stomach<\/a> herself with a crucifix. Like Jesus, it seems, Margaret could be born (from a dragon at least) without the help of a man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new exhibit at the Getty offers a revealing look at women from the Middle Ages. With an understandable weariness, the exhibition\u2019s creators acknowledge, both on the introductory museum label and catalogue book jacket, that most people imagine medieval women as damsels in distress, being rescued perhaps by a dragon-\u00adhunting St. George. One has to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medieval Women Were Not Waifs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[1215,1864],"class_list":["post-9796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","tag-history","tag-middle-ages"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}