Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture, 1150-1300
Virginity and its Authorizations
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 March 2001
- ISBN 9780198112792
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages330 pages
- Size 243x165x23 mm
- Weight 615 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2pp halftones, one map and numerous tables 0
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Short description:
Women's engagement with the powerful medieval ideal of virginity is reflected in the saints' lives written by and for women in twelfth and thirteenth-century England. This book explores the usefulness of the virgin ideal for widows, wives, and women in religion and is the first book-length study of women writers in England at this period.
MoreLong description:
Writing by and for women in the twelfth and thirteenth century in England is less well known than that of the later medieval period of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe. This is the first book-length exploration of a rich literary culture embracing several vernaculars as well as Latin. It focuses particularly on women's uses and adaptations of the powerful ideal of virgin sanctity. Saints' lives were used by lay and religious women in a range of ways, whether as exemplary of vocational biography, as historiography, as texts in the politics of court and convent, or as vernacular theology. As a sampling of this earlier literary culture, saints' lives suggest that there is a wealth of texts and manuscripts which need further study before we can map the literary and linguistic history of women in medieval England.
... not the least of this book's virtues is the help and stimulation it should give to graduate students in this field. For the rest of us, it supplies a mine of information on one's bookshelf, to consult for a long time to come.
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations and figures
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Women's Literary Culture in 12th and 13th-century England
The Virgin Estate
Virginity and the Gift
Virgin Passions: Romance, Raptus, Ritual
Honorary Virginities
Beyond Enclosure: The Lives of a Widow
Virgin Authority and its Transmission
The Virgin Speaks
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
