Choosing not to marry
Subtitle: women and autonomy in the Katherine Group
By: Julie Hassel.
Series: Studies in medieval history and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: English prose literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Devotional literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism.; Christian literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism.; Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Christian hagiography -- History -- To 1500.; Autonomy (Psychology) in literature.; Christian saints in literature.; Single women in literature.; Virginity in literature.; Feminism in literature.; Marriage in literature.; Sex role in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-137) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Katherine Group in context; title: Gender and the study of medieval spirituality; title: Jerome and the freedom of not marrying; title: Peter Abelard and twelfth-century clerical misogamy; title: Monastic life in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; title: Virginity and women's opportunities in Hali Meiðhad; title: Hali Meiðhad as devotional literature; title: Autonomy for women in Hali Meiðhad; title: The saints' lives; title: Katherine; title: Margaret; title: Juliana; title: Reading a wife in Sawles Warde; title: Feminist approaches to Sawles Warde; title: The household as soul; title: Inner and outer in Ancrene Wisse; title: The wife in Sawles Warde.