Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)
Contributors: Cindy L. Carlson (Editor); Angela Jane Weisl (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312211363
Subjects: Medieval Literature - History And Criticism; Women In Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Medieval; Women's Studies - History; Social Science / Women's Studies; Women Authors; Europe; History; History and criticism; Literature, Medieval; To 1500; Virginity in literature; Women and literature
First sentence: In French, the word veuve ("widow," from Latin vidua, "deprived of") is not known to have a parallel masculine form (veuf, widower) until the sixteenth century.