Versions of virginity in late medieval England / Sarah Salih.

• "Virginity is imagined by theological writers as perfect and timeless, yet as performed by individual persons, it is inherently imperfect and contingent. The legends of virgin martyrs imagine a virginity which is produced in the endurance of public torture; the torture scenes, often read as pornographic, instead highlight the contested status of the virgin body. Virginity is contained and feminised in the lives of nuns, produced communally with reference to such symbolic practices as veiling and enclosure. Margery Kempe, when read in the context of virginity theory, can claim at least to be like a virgin; if virginity is performative, she may indeed be its paradigm. Finally, virginity is the very opposite of stable and natural; it is active, contested, vulnerable but also recoupable."--Jacket. 

Ämnesord

Kvinnor  (sao)

Engelsk religiös litteratur  (sao)

Engelsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

English literature  -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Women and literature  -- England -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Virginity  -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. (LCSH)

Monasticism and religious orders for women  -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. (LCSH)

Monastic and religious life of women  -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. (LCSH)

Christian literature, English (Middle)  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Christian hagiography.  (fast)

Christian saints in literature.  (fast)

Women  (LCSH)

Religious literature, English  (LCSH)

England.  (fast)

To 1500  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Namn/titel

Kempe, Margery, approximately 1373-: Book of Margery Kempe. 

Titel

Book of Margery Kempe (Kempe, Margery)

Klassifikation

PR275.W6 (LCC)

820.9/353 (DDC)