Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture, 1150-1300 : Virginity and its Authorizations
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198112793
ISBN-13
9780198112792
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 2001
Print length
330 Pages
Weight
615 grams
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24.30 x 16.50 x 2.30 cms
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Literary studies: classical, early & medievalHistory of religionGender studies: women
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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.
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.
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