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A Level Place in Up-Hill Times: The Medieval and the Appalachian Woman

A Level Place in Up-Hill Times: The Medieval and the Appalachian Woman A Level Place in Up-Hill Times: The Medieval and the Appalachian Woman Jane Eblen Keller Appalachian Heritage, Volume 29, Number 3, Summer 2001, pp. 21-33 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2001.0024 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436104/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:30 GMT from JHU Libraries SCHOLARSHIP A Level Place in Up-HiIl Times: The Medieval and the Appalachian Woman Jane Eblen Keller Consider, first, a world of isolated, hardscrabble, virtually self- sustaining farming settlements. The people scratching out their living here are kin for the most part, along with some drifters and laborers. Roads are poor; governments and other institutions are weak. Hunger, disease, disastrous weather and marauding outlaws are constant threats. The extended family, or clan, or kinship group, is the chief source of whatever comfort, warmth, adjudication, or education— never mind food, clothing, and shelter—might be available. In this picture, women are subject to every kind of indignity and hardship—except the psychological, social, economic marginalization of "better times." Or so argue many scholars of the early medieval period (between the ninth and eleventh centuries) in Western Europe. After the collapse of the Carolingian Empire, the theory goes, the kin http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

A Level Place in Up-Hill Times: The Medieval and the Appalachian Woman

Appalachian Review , Volume 29 (3) – Jan 8, 2014

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A Level Place in Up-Hill Times: The Medieval and the Appalachian Woman Jane Eblen Keller Appalachian Heritage, Volume 29, Number 3, Summer 2001, pp. 21-33 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2001.0024 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436104/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:30 GMT from JHU Libraries SCHOLARSHIP A Level Place in Up-HiIl Times: The Medieval and the Appalachian Woman Jane Eblen Keller Consider, first, a world of isolated, hardscrabble, virtually self- sustaining farming settlements. The people scratching out their living here are kin for the most part, along with some drifters and laborers. Roads are poor; governments and other institutions are weak. Hunger, disease, disastrous weather and marauding outlaws are constant threats. The extended family, or clan, or kinship group, is the chief source of whatever comfort, warmth, adjudication, or education— never mind food, clothing, and shelter—might be available. In this picture, women are subject to every kind of indignity and hardship—except the psychological, social, economic marginalization of "better times." Or so argue many scholars of the early medieval period (between the ninth and eleventh centuries) in Western Europe. After the collapse of the Carolingian Empire, the theory goes, the kin

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