Lady and the Virgin Image, Attitude, and Experience in Twelfth-Century France

Name: Lady and the Virgin Image, Attitude, and Experience in Twelfth-Century France
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ISBN: 9780226300887

ISBN-10: 0226300889

ISBN-13: 9780226300887

Edition: 1985

Authors: Penny Schine Gold, Catherine R. Stimpson

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Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues that the complex interactions between men and women as expressed in both image and experience reflect a common pattern of ambivalence and contradiction. Thus, women are seen as both helpful and harmful, powerful and submissive, and the actuality of women's experience encompasses women in control and controlled, autonomous and dependent. Vividly recreating the rich texture of medieval life, Gold effectively and eloquently goes beyond a simple equation of social context and representation. In the…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 0.57" wide x 0.85" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgments



Secular Image: Women in Chanson de Geste and Romance Literature and History: Some Methodological Concerns Chanson de Geste Romance



Religious Image


The Iconography of the Virgin Mary The Romanesque Image


The Virgin and Child The Early Gothic Image


The Triumph of the Virgin


The Coronation of the Virgin and the Standing Virgin and Child


The Virgin Mary and Attitudes toward Women



Religious Life: The Monastic Experience Historical Survey


The Reform Movements The Order of Fontevrault



Secular Life: Control of Property



Conclusion selected


Bibliography


Index