| Contents |
Constructions of widowhood and virginity / Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl -- Helpful widows, virgins in distress: women's friendship in French romance of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Anna Roberts -- The widow as virgin: desexualized narrative in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames / Angela Jane Weisl -- Closed doors: an epithalamium for Queen Edith, widow and virgin / Monika Otter -- Performing virginity: sex and violence in the Katherine Group / Sarah Salih -- The paradox of virginity within the Anchoritic tradition: the masculine gaze and the feminine body in the Wohunge Group / Susannah Mary Chewning -- Useful virgins in medieval hagiography / Kathleen Coyne Kelly -- Virginity and sacrifice in Chaucer's "Physician's tale" / Sandra Pierson Prior -- Blood and rosaries: virginity, violence, and desire in Chaucer's "Prioress's tale" / Kathleen M. Hobbs -- Like a virgin: Mary and her doubters in the N-town cycle / Cindy L. Carlson -- Between the living and the dead: widows as heroines of medieval romances / Rebecca Hayward -- The widow's tears: the pedagogy of grief in medieval France and the image of the grieving widow / Leslie Abend Callahan. |
