Doctrine Embodied: Gender, Performance, and Authority in Late-Medieval Preaching
- Author / Editor
- Waters, Claire McMartin.
Doctrine Embodied: Gender, Performance, and Authority in Late-Medieval Preaching
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 4423A.
- Description
- Focuses on the association of preaching and the preacher's body in medieval tradition, exploring the association through traditional identification of women and the body. Women preachers of hagiographic tradition and various exemplary women (including Constance of MLT, Griselda of ClT, and Philosophy of Bo) reflect the struggles of women to educate or preach.
- Elsewhere in CT, Chaucer's own body is a secular version of the struggle.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Canterbury Tales--General.