Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture, 1150-1300 - Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn (Professor of English, Professor of English, Fordham University, NY)

Women's engagement with the powerful medieval ideal of virginity is reflected in the saints' lives written by and for women in twelfth and thirteenth-century England. This book explores the usefulness of the virgin ideal for widows, wives, and women in religion and is the first book-length study of women writers in England at this period.