Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages write by Cindy L. Carlson. This book was released on 2000-01-06. Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To be a virgin or a widow never promised a stable, uniform status to a woman during the Middle Ages. Rather, these positions were areas open to debate, constructions that did and still do create and question notions of gender roles, areas of power, and areas of disability. Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages addresses many facets of these two female positions in medieval literature: gender constructions; the body and what it means to make it visible, whether in admiration, torture, or martyrdom; issues of physicality and abjection; creations of literary voice for women who write or create situations for them to be written about. A distinguished group of female scholars examine the meanings behind widowhood and virginity both individually and in relation to each other. The focus on both positions in the same volume makes Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages an unprecedented work.
Medieval Virginities
Medieval Virginities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Virginities write by Ruth Evans. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Medieval Virginities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The variety of subjects and disciplines represented here testify both to the elusiveness of virginity and to its lasting appeal and importance. Medieval Virginities shows how virginity's inherent ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies.
Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England
Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England write by Sarah Salih. This book was released on 2001. Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medieval virginity theory explored through study of martyrs, nuns and Margery Kempe. This study looks at the question of what it meant to be a virgin in the Middle Ages, and the forms which female virginity took. It begins with the assumptions that there is more to virginity than sexual inexperience, and that virginity may be considered as a gendered identity, a role which is performed rather than biologically determined. The author explores versions of virginity as they appear in medieval saints' lives, in the institutional chastity of nuns, and as shown in the book of Margery Kempe, showing how it can be active, contested, vulnerable but also recoverable. SARAH SALIH teaches in the Department of English at King's College London.
Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality
Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality write by L. Sylvester. This book was released on 2007-12-25. Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book interrogates our ideas about heterosexuality through examination of medieval romance narratives. Familiar configurations of romantic fiction such as male desire overwhelming feminine reluctance and the aloof masculine hero undone by love derive from this period. This book tests current theories of language and desire through stylistic analysis, examining transitivity choices and speech acts in sexual encounters and conversations in medieval romances. In the context of current preoccupations with gender and sexuality, and consent in rape cases, this study is of interest to scholars investigating language and sexuality as well as those researching and teaching medieval literature and culture.
Widows in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain
Widows in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Widows in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain write by Marie-Françoise Alamichel. This book was released on 2008. Widows in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides a comprehensive study of widowhood in Medieval Britain based on literary and historical sources from the seventh to the 15th centuries. It devotes much attention to family structures and to the legal and social aspects of inheritance.
