04579nam 2200781Ia 450 99624806710331620230821215931.01-282-53874-897866125387420-226-30089-710.7208/9780226300894(CKB)2670000000009712(EBL)488097(OCoLC)609856878(SSID)ssj0000362282(PQKBManifestationID)11250538(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000362282(PQKBWorkID)10381205(PQKB)11249755(SSID)ssj0000438722(PQKBManifestationID)12148697(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438722(PQKBWorkID)10460337(PQKB)11558179(MiAaPQ)EBC488097(DE-B1597)535536(OCoLC)1135587050(DE-B1597)9780226300894(Au-PeEL)EBL488097(CaPaEBR)ebr10366826(CaONFJC)MIL253874(iGPub)UCHIB0001791(dli)HEB04159(MiU)MIU01000000000000009771928(EXLCZ)99267000000000971219871028h19871985 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe lady & the Virgin image, attitude, and experience in twelfth-century France /Penny Schine GoldChicago University of Chicago Press1987, c19851 online resource (216 pages)Women in culture and societySubstantial and thorough revision of author's dissertation.0-226-30087-0 0-226-30088-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Illustrations --Tables --Foreword --Preface --Acknowledgments --1. Secular Image: Women in Chanson de Geste and Romance --2. Religious Image: The Iconography of the Virgin Mary --3. Religious Life: The Monastic Experience --4. Secular Life: Control of Property --5. Conclusion --Selected Bibliography --IndexPenny 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. Vividly recreating the rich texture of medieval life, Gold effectively and eloquently goes beyond a simple equation of social context and representation. In the process. she challenges equally simple judgments of historical periods as being either "good" or "bad" for women. "[The Lady and the Virgin] presents its findings in a form that should attract students as well as their instructors. The careful and controlled use of so many different kinds of sources . . . offers us a valuable medieval case study in the inner-relationship between the segments of society and its ethos or value system."-Joel T. Rosenthal, The History Teacher "Something of a tour de force in an interdisciplinary approach to history."-Jo Ann McNamara, Speculum "[A] well-written, extremely well-researched book. . . . The Lady and the Virgin is useful, readable, and well informed."-R. Howard Bloch, Modern PhilologyWomen in culture and society.Lady and the VirginSocial historyMedieval, 500-1500WomenFranceHistoryMiddle Ages, 500-1500women, gender, imagery, literature, art, social norms, middle ages, power, submission, control, dependence, representation, visual culture, archetype, virgin mary, religion, spirituality, christianity, catholicism, france, symbolism, history, iconography, romance, chanson de geste, chivalry, courtly love, saints, madonna, monasticism, cloister, piety, devotion, reform, property, wealth, economics, fontevrault, nonfiction.Social historyWomenHistory305.4/0944305.40944Gold Penny Schine592423MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996248067103316The lady & the Virgin2036827UNISA