Feminine Figurae(English, Hardcover, Garber Rebecca L.R.)

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Feminine Figurae(English, Hardcover, Garber Rebecca L.R.) is written by Garber Rebecca L.R. and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0415939534 (ISBN 10) and 9780415939539 (ISBN 13).

This work offers an examination of religious texts written by twelve women over three centuries in two languages and three genres, showing the variety and complexity of gendered images available to medieval women. Moving beyond the categories of virgin, wife and widow, these religious texts created a spectrum of exemplary feminine life-paths based not on marital status, age, social rank, or profession, but instead founded on biblical figures, monastic divisions of labor, expected saintly behaviors, and even individual personality characteristics. This study contributes to discussions of genre and its influences on gender representation, as well as to scholarship on the complexities of gender relationships within literary works and historical contexts. This work will also serve to introduce a wider audience to a cycle of texts and an interrelated group of women authors previously available only to specialists in German and manuscript studies.