The Lady and the Virgin: Image, Attitude, and Experience in Twelfth-Century France - Couverture souple

Gold, Penny Schine Schine

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ISBN 10 : 0226300889 ISBN 13 : 9780226300887

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1987

Synopsis

The Lady and the Virgin 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, p... Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Vividly recreating the rich texture of medieval life, Gold effectively and eloquently goes beyond a simple equation of social context and representation. In the process. she challenges equally simple judgments of historical periods as being either "good" or "bad" for women.

"[The Lady and the Virgin] presents its findings in a form that should attract students as well as their instructors. The careful and controlled use of so many different kinds of sources . . . offers us a valuable medieval case study in the inner-relationship between the segments of society and its ethos or value system."—Joel T. Rosenthal, The History Teacher

"Something of a tour de force in an interdisciplinary approach to history."—Jo Ann McNamara, Speculum

"[A] well-written, extremely well-researched book. . . . The Lady and the Virgin is useful, readable, and well informed."—R. Howard Bloch, Modern Philology

Biographie de l'auteur

Penny Schine Gold is associate professor of history at Knox College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0226300889
• ISBN 13: 9780226300887
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 214