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

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

1st ed.

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

viii, 270 p. ; 22 cm

The new Middle Ages

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))

United States -- New York (State) -- New York.

PN682.W6 C66 1999