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Chastete dans la litterature --- Chastity in literature --- Kuisheid in de literatuur --- Maagdelijkheid in de literatuur --- Veuves dans la littérature --- Virginity in literature --- Virginité dans la littérature --- Weduwen in de letterkunde --- Widows in literature --- Literature [Medieval ] --- History and criticism --- Women and literature --- Europe --- History --- To 1500 --- FEMMES ET LITTERATURE --- VIRGINITE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CHASTETE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- VEUVES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- EUROPE

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To be a virgin or a widow never promised a stable, uniform status to a woman during the Middle Ages. Rather, these positions were areas of contestation; constructions that did, and still do, create and interrogate notions of gender roles, areas of power, and areas of disability. Chastity, for one example, is an apparent given for both positions, but chastity at the time invoked any number of cultural meanings and practices. The essays in Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages address many facets of these two positions specific to women in medieval literature.(Book jacket)

Chastity in literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Virginity in literature --- Widows in literature --- Women and literature --- History and criticism --- History