The lady & the Virgin

Alternate 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.

First Sentence

Works of imaginative literature written in the vernacular provide vivid portrayals of the interactions between men and women in the secular sphere.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Women in culture and society

Other Editions

• The lady & the Virgin: image, attitude, and experience in twelfth-century FranceUniversity of Chicago Press1985-01-01
• The Lady and the VirginPaperbackUniversity Of Chicago Press1987-06-15
• Lady and the Virgin.University of Chicago Press1991-01-01
• Lady and the VirginUniversity of Chicago Press2010-01-01
• Lady and the VirginUniversity of Chicago Press2014-01-01