edited by Katherine J. Lewis, Noël James Menuge & Kim M. Phillips.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
St. Martin's Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1999.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xx, 202 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Maidenhood as the perfect age of woman's life / Kim M. Phillips -- Model Girls? Virgin-martyrs and the training of young women in late Medieval England / Katherine J. Lewis -- Crowns and virgins : queenmaking during the Wars of the Roses / Joanna L. Chamberlayne -- A positive representation of the power of young women : the malterer embroidery re-examined / Kristina E. Gourlay -- Rape in John Gower's Confessio amantis and other related works / Isabelle Mast -- Joan of Arc : gender and authority in the text of the Trial of condemnation / Lilas G. Edwards -- Female wards and marriage in romance and law : a question of consent / Noël James Menuge -- Pigs and prostitutes : streetwalking in comparative perspective / P.J.P. Goldberg.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The book consists of a collection of interdisciplinary essays, each of which takes an individual approach to young women or the notion of 'youth' as a stage in women's lives in late medieval Europe. Together they form a unique collection which is both wide-ranging in its examination of numerous themes related to young medieval women and coherent in its social and historical focus on the culture of late medieval north-western Europe.