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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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John Deane
reviewed Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages, Vol. 1 on January 10, 2017
Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages, Vol. 1
A book arguing for influence from the Arabic/Islamic world literature on the European literature, especially during the Middle Ages. Probably it's intended for specialist, so despite the low number of pages it's not very easy to follow. I don't know how influential it is in the field, but as a general reader, I find it to have several weaknesses: Not enough context is provided to explain technical concepts such as muwashshaha or about works such as Decameron, and also too many repetitions of similar complain about the lack of attention in the field.
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