Are Mothers Saints? Changes in the Perception of Motherhood in the Later Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Kuhn, Wiebke.
Are Mothers Saints? Changes in the Perception of Motherhood in the Later Middle Ages
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2705A, 2001.
- Description
- Medieval idealizations of motherhood developed alongside the rising emphasis on the suffering of Christ and the saints. Kuhn discusses works by Jacobus de Voragine, Chaucer (LGW, MLT, ClT, and PrT), Osbern Bokenham, and Margery Kempe. The tradition survived into later centuries.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.