Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Salih, Sarah.
Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2001.
- Physical Description
- ix, 278 pp.
- Description
- Explores the role of virginity in notions of late-medieval bodies, genders, identities and social practices. The study, focusing on female religious versions of virginity, is structured around decreasing degrees of enclosure, examining hagiographic modes of virginity in Katherine Group virgin-martyr legends of the early thirteenth century, the monastic virginity of nuns, and the reclaimed virginity of Margery Kempe.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.