The lady & the Virgin
Subtitle: image, attitude, and experience in twelfth-century France
By: Penny Schine Gold.
Series: Women in culture and society
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Symbolism; Women -- France -- History -- Middle ages, 500-1500; Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500
Other titles: Lady and the Virgin.
Description: Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues that the complex interactions between men and women as expressed in both image and experience reflect a common pattern of ambivalence and contradiction. Thus, women are seen as both helpful and harmful, powerful and submissive, and the actuality of women's experience encompasses women in control and controlled, autonomous and dependent.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 153-176.
Substantial and thorough revision of author's dissertation.
Includes index.