The Sheela-na-Gig: An Incongruous Sign of Sexual Purity?
- Author / Editor
- Dor, Juliette.
The Sheela-na-Gig: An Incongruous Sign of Sexual Purity?
- Published
- Anke Bernau, Ruth Evans, and Sarah Salih, eds. Medieval Virginities (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), pp. 33-55.
- Description
- Dor links the exhibitionist sheela-na-gig with the widespread Celtic mythological motif of Lady Sovereignty that has been identified with the transformation motif in WBT.
- Contributor
- Bernau, Anke, ed.
- Evans, Ruth, ed.
- Salih, Sarah, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Virginities.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations