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Acknowledgments | ||
Series Editor's Foreword | ||
Introduction: Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity | 1 | |
Pt. I | Widows and Virgins | |
Ch. 1 | Helpful Widows, Virgins in Distress: Women's Friendship in French Romance of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries | 25 |
Ch. 2 | The Widow as Virgin: Desexualized Narrative in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cite des Dames | 49 |
Ch. 3 | Closed Doors: An Epithalamium for Queen Edith, Widow and Virgin | 63 |
Pt. II | The Varieties of Virginity | |
Ch. 4 | Performing Virginity: Sex and Violence in the Katherine Group | 95 |
Ch. 5 | The Paradox of Virginity within the Anchoritic Tradition: The Masculine Gaze and the Feminine Body in the Wohunge Group | 113 |
Ch. 6 | Useful Virgins in Medieval Hagiography | 135 |
Ch. 7 | Virginity and Sacrifice in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale" | 165 |
Ch. 8 | Blood and Rosaries: Virginity, Violence, and Desire in Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale" | 181 |
Ch. 9 | Like a Virgin: Mary and her Doubters in the N-Town Cycle | 199 |
Pt. III | Constructing Widowhood | |
Ch. 10 | Between the Living and the Dead: Widows as Heroines of Medieval Romances | 221 |
Ch. 11 | The Widow's Tears: The Pedagogy of Grief in Medieval France and the Image of the Grieving Widow | 245 |
Contributors | 265 | |
Index | 267 |
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