| Description |
xx, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Maidenhood as the Perfect Age of Woman's Life / Kim M. Phillips -- 2. Model Girls? Virgin-Martyrs and the Training of Young Women in Late Medieval England / Katherine J. Lewis -- 3. Crowns and Virgins: Queenmaking During the Wars of the Roses / Joanna L. Chamberlayne -- 4. A Positive Representation of the Power of Young Women: The Malterer Embroidery Re-Examined / Kristina E. Gourlay -- 5. Rape in John Gower's Confessio Amantis and Other Related Works / Isabelle Mast -- 6. Joan of Arc: Gender and Authority in the Text of the Trial of Condemnation / Lilas G. Edwards -- 7. Female Wards and Marriage in Romance and Law: A Question of Consent / Noel James Menuge -- 8. Pigs and Prostitutes: Streetwalking in Comparative Perspective / P. J. P. Goldberg |
| Summary |
"The book consists of a collection of interdisciplinary essays, each of which takes an individual approach to young women or the notion of 'youth' as a stage in women's lives in late medieval Europe. Together they form a unique collection which is both wide-ranging in its examination of numerous themes related to young medieval women and coherent in its social and historical focus on the culture of late medieval north-western Europe."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Young women -- Europe -- History.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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| Author |
Phillips, Kim M.
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Menuge, Noël James.
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Lewis, Katherine J., 1969-
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| LC no. |
98048753 |
| ISBN |
0312221304 cloth |
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