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Title:

Constructions of widowhood and virginity in the Middle Ages / edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

St. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

viii, 270 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism
Women and literature--Europe--History--To 1500.
Virginity in literature.
Chastity in literature.
Widows in literature

Other Authors:

Carlson, Cindy L., 1953-
Weisl, Angela Jane, 1963-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Constructions of widowhood and virginity / Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl -- Helpful widows, virgins in distress: women's friendship in French romance of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Anna Roberts -- The widow as virgin: desexualized narrative in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames / Angela Jane Weisl -- Closed doors: an epithalamium for Queen Edith, widow and virgin / Monika Otter -- Performing virginity: sex and violence in the Katherine Group / Sarah Salih -- The paradox of virginity within the Anchoritic tradition: the masculine gaze and the feminine body in the Wohunge Group / Susannah Mary Chewning -- Useful virgins in medieval hagiography / Kathleen Coyne Kelly -- Virginity and sacrifice in Chaucer's "Physician's tale" / Sandra Pierson Prior -- Blood and rosaries: virginity, violence, and desire in Chaucer's "Prioress's tale" / Kathleen M. Hobbs -- Like a virgin: Mary and her doubters in the N-town cycle / Cindy L. Carlson -- Between the living and the dead: widows as heroines of medieval romances / Rebecca Hayward -- The widow's tears: the pedagogy of grief in medieval France and the image of the grieving widow / Leslie Abend Callahan.

Series:

The new Middle Ages ;

ISBN:

9780312211363
0312211368

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41156478

LCCN:

99027418

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)