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Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD

In this series of ten video lectures Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and King’s College London, discusses the contributions of women intellectuals, mystics, and philosophers in ancient Greece, ancient China, the Islamic world, and medieval Europe. From Diotima to Christine de Pizan, we learn about the ideas of female thinkers and also about the challenges they faced in putting forward these ideas.

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1:06:02

Christine de Pizan

Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD ·

2018/04/25

The series ends with a look at Christine de Pizan and her response to misogynistic medieval literature, focusing especially on her role in the debate over Jean de Meun’s poem Romance of the Rose.

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56:03

Catherine of Siena and Julian of Norwich

Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD ·

2018/04/25

In this episode we examine late medieval English mysticism as a context for the work of the famous anchorite Julian of Norwich, and discuss her remarkable response to the problem of why there is evil in the world.

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1:00:48

Marguerite Porete

Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD ·

2018/04/25

The most daring woman medieval philosopher was Marguerite Porete, whose teachings in her Mirror of Simple Souls led to her being executed in Paris at the beginning of the fourteenth century.

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1:01:01

Hadewijch and Mechthild of Magdeburg

Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD ·

2018/04/25

In this episode we learn about the writings of Mechthild of Magdeburg and Hadewijch, Beguine mystics who wrote respectively in medieval German and medieval Dutch and used the tropes of courtly love poetry to describe their relation to God.

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57:07

Hildegard and Heloise

Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD ·

2018/04/25

Two great women philosophers of the twelfth century: Heloise, the student and lover of Peter Abelard, and the visionary mystic and natural philosopher Hildegard of Bingen.

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55:51

Medieval Islam

Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD ·

2018/04/25

The role of women intellectuals in Islam, focusing on the medieval period: the role of women in transmitting religious knowledge, and the achievements of female mystics (Sufis) like Rabi‘a.

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1:02:41

Ancient India

Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD ·

2018/04/25

We turn from ancient European culture to ancient India, and discuss the presentation of women sages in the Upanisads and a passage of the Mahabharata, in which a female mystic named Sulabha refutes a king’s pretensions to wisdom.

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55:34

Late Antiquity

Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD ·

2018/04/25

A number of late antique texts depict women engaged in philosophical debate, including the pagan martyr, mathematician, and philosopher Hypatia, Macrina, depicted on her deathbed discoursing on the immortality of the soul, and Augustine’s mother Monica.

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58:19

Views of Women in Plato and Aristotle

Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD ·

2018/04/25

To better understand the context within which ancient and medieval women lived and thought, we examine ideas about women in Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics.

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57:59

Classical Antiquity

Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD ·

2018/04/25

A look at letters ascribed to early female Pythagoreans and a discussion of Diotima and Aspasia, who appear as speakers in Plato’s dialogues Symposium and Menexenus.

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