Women's stories, male voices: narratives of female misbehaviour in medieval Europe

Medieval narrative accounts of female misbehaviour reflect deep social perceptions and expectations grounded in ideas of gender. The women described in the twelfth-century non-fiction narratives analysed in this thesis had not behaved in an objectively "bad" way, judged by legal or moral s...

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Main Author: Vittorelli, Margherita
Other Authors: Nancy F Partner (Supervisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2012
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107909