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.
Virgin Martyrs
Virgin Martyrs - 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 Virgin Martyrs write by Karen A. Winstead. This book was released on 2018-05-31. Virgin Martyrs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stories of the torture and execution of beautiful Christian women first appeared in late antiquity and proliferated during the early Middle Ages. A thousand years later, virgin martyrs were still the most popular female saints. Their legends, in countless retellings through the centuries, preserved a standard plot—the heroine resists a pagan suitor, endures cruelties inflicted by her rejected lover or outraged family, works miracles, and dies for Christ. That sequence was embellished by incidents emblematic of the specific saint: Juliana's battle with the devil, Barbara's immurement in the tower, Katherine's encounter with spiked wheels. Karen A. Winstead examines this seemingly static story form and discovers subtle shifts in the representation of the virgin martyrs, as their legends were adapted for changing audiences in late medieval England.
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.
The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Popular Culture
The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Popular Culture - 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 The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Popular Culture write by Gary Waller. This book was released on 2011-01-20. The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book was first published in 2011. The Virgin Mary was one of the most powerful images of the Middle Ages, central to people's experience of Christianity. During the Reformation, however, many images of the Virgin were destroyed, as Protestantism rejected the way the medieval Church over-valued and sexualized Mary. Although increasingly marginalized in Protestant thought and practice, her traces and surprising transformations continued to haunt early modern England. Combining historical analysis and contemporary theory, including issues raised by psychoanalysis and feminist theology, Gary Waller examines the literature, theology and popular culture associated with Mary in the transition between late medieval and early modern England. He contrasts a variety of pre-Reformation texts and events, including popular mariology, poetry, tales, drama, pilgrimage and the emerging 'New Learning', with later sixteenth-century ruins, songs, ballads, Petrarchan poetry, the works of Shakespeare and other texts where the Virgin's presence or influence, sometimes surprisingly, can be found.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture - 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 The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture write by Andrew Galloway. This book was released on 2011-03-24. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A compact collection of focused introductions to and inquiries into medieval England, representing both history and literature.
