The lady & 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.

subjects: Symbolism,  History,  Social history,  Women,  Mensbeeld,  Histoire sociale,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Symbolisme,  Histoire,  Vrouwen,  Religieuze aspecten,  Culte,  Femmes,  Women's Studies,  Middle Ages,  Historia social,  Medieval,  Attitude,  Public Opinion,  Mary, blessed virgin, saint,  Women, france,  Social history, medieval, 500-1500

People: Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint

Places: France

Times: Medieval, 500-1500,  Middle ages, 500-1500