The lady & the Virgin : image, attitude, and experience in twelfth-century France

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Label

The lady & the Virgin : image, attitude, and experience in twelfth-century France

Title remainder

image, attitude, and experience in twelfth-century France

Statement of responsibility

Penny Schine Gold

Creator

• Gold, Penny Schine

Subject

• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Symbolism
• Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500
• Women -- France -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
• History

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

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

Related

• Lady and the Virgin

Member of

• Women in culture and society

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Women in culture and society