Choosing not to marry : women and autonomy in the Katherine Group / by Julie Hassel.

• The Katherine Group in context -- Gender and the study of medieval spirituality -- Jerome and the freedom of not marrying -- Peter Abelard and twelfth-century clerical misogamy -- Monastic life in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- Virginity and women's opportunities in Hali Meidhad -- Hali Meidhad as devotional literature -- Autonomy for women in Hali Meidhad -- The saints' lives -- Katherine -- Margaret -- Juliana -- Reading a wife in Sawles Warde -- Feminist approaches to Sawles Warde -- Inner and outer in Ancrene Wisse -- The wife in Sawles Warde.

Ämnesord

Oskuld i litteraturen  (sao)

Medeltiden  (sao)

Christian women saints in literature.  (LCSH)

Autonomy (Psychology) in literature.  (LCSH)

Single women in literature.  (LCSH)

Virginity in literature.  (LCSH)

Feminism in literature.  (LCSH)

Marriage in literature.  (LCSH)

Sex role in literature.  (LCSH)

Hagiography.  (LCSH)

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

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

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

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

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

Könsroller i litteraturen  -- historia -- Storbritannien (sao)

Engelsk religiös litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Virginity in literature  (LCSH)

Middle Ages  (LCSH)

Europe--History--476-1492  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ge.3 Litteraturhistoria: engelska: medeltiden

Klassifikation

PR275.W6 (LCC)

828/.10809352042 (DDC)

Ge.3 (kssb/7)