عنوان

The profession of widowhood :

شابک

0813230209

شابک

9780813230207

شابک اشتباه

0813230195

شابک اشتباه

9780813230191

عنوان اصلي

The profession of widowhood :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

widows, pastoral care, and medieval models of holiness /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Katherine Clark Walter.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Washington, D.C. :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Catholic University of America Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2018.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (430 pages .)

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

Creating the widow in the early church -- The widow and the cloister: early medieval hagiography -- The veil and the vow: professed widowhood in canon law and liturgical manuscripts -- Chaste widows and the penitential ethos in later medieval hagiography -- Managing the matron: widowhood in medieval sermon literature -- Reading widows: grief, memory, and the parody of chaste widowhood in medieval literature -- Like a picture before the eyes: transitions to the early modern world.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"The profession of widowhood explores how the idea of 'true' widowhood was central to pre-modern ideas concerning marriage and of female identity more generally. The medieval figure of the Christian vere vidua or 'good' widow evolved from and reinforced ancient social and religious sensibilities of chastity, loyalty and grief as gendered 'work.' The ideal widow was a virtuous woman who mourned her dead husband in chastity, solitude, and most importantly, in perpetuity, marking her as 'a widow indeed' (1 Tim 5:5). The widow who failed to display adequate grief fulfilled the stereotype of the 'merry widow' who forgot her departed spouse and abused her sexual and social freedom. Stereotypes of widows 'good' and 'bad' served highly-charged ideological functions in pre-modern culture, and have remained durable even in modern times, even as Western secular society now focuses more on a woman's recovery from grief and possible re-coupling than the expectation that she remain forever widowed. The widow represented not only the powerful bond created by love and marriage, but also embodied the conventions of grief that ordered the response when those bonds were broken by premature death. This notion of the widow as both a passive memorial to her husband and as an active 'rememberer' was rooted in ancient traditions, and appropriated by early Christian and medieval authors who used 'good' widowhood to describe the varieties of female celibacy and to define the social and gender order. A tradition of widowhood characterized by chastity, solitude, and permanent bereavement affirmed both the sexual mores and political agenda of the medieval Church. Medieval widows--both holy women recognized as saints and 'ordinary women' in medieval daily life--recognized this tradition of professed chastity in widowhood not only as a valuable strategy for avoiding remarriage and protecting their independence, but as a state with inherent dignity that afforded opportunities for spiritual development in this world and eternal merit in the next"--Publisher's website.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

JSTOR

شماره انبار

22573/ctv8064b3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

0813230195

موضوع مستند نشده

Widowhood-- Europe-- History-- To 1500.

موضوع مستند نشده

Widows-- Religious life-- History-- To 1500.

موضوع مستند نشده

HISTORY-- Medieval.

موضوع مستند نشده

RELIGION-- Christian Life-- Social Issues.

موضوع مستند نشده

RELIGION-- Christianity-- General.

موضوع مستند نشده

Widowhood.

موضوع مستند نشده

Widows-- Religious life.

موضوع مستند نشده

Europe.

بدون عنوان

7

موضوع مستند نشده

HIS-- 037010

موضوع مستند نشده

REL-- 012110

موضوع مستند نشده

REL-- 070000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Walter, Katherine Clark

تاريخ عمليات

20200822133639.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y