Lady and the Virgin: Image, Attitude and Experience in Twelfth-century France PDF
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The Lady and the Vi1lJin Women in Culture and Society A Series Edited by Catharine R. Stimpson The Lady .&. the Vit;!Jin Image) Attitude) and Experience in Twelfth-Century France Penny Schine Gold The University of Chicago Press Chicago & London The author gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint "Male/Female Cooperation: The Example of Fontevrault," from vol. 1 of Distant Echoes: Medieval Religious T#Jmen, pp. 151-68, ed. John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank (Kalamawo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 198+) (with minor changes now part of chap. 3 of this volume). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 1985 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 1985 Paperback edition 1987 Printed in the United States of America 9+ 93 92 91 90 89 88 87 5+32 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Gold, Penny Schine. The lady and the Virgin. (Women in culture and society) Substantial and thorough revision of author's dissertation. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Women-France-History-Middle ages, 500-1500. 2. Social history-Medieval, 500-1500. 3. Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint-Symbolism. 1. Title. II. Series. HQII+7.F7G65 1985 305.+'09++ 8+-23701 ISBN 0-226-30087-0 (cloth) ISBN 0-226-30088-9 (paper) To Joseph Gold and Helen Schine Gold Contents List ofI llustrations ix List ofT ables Xl Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson Xlll Preface xv Acknowledgments XXlll I. Secular Image: Women in Chanson de Geste and Romance Literature and History: Some Methodological Concerns I Chanson de Geste 4 Romance 18 2. Religious Image: The Iconography of the Virgin Mary 4-3 The Romanesque Image: The Virgin and Child 46 The Early Gothic Image: The Triumph of the Virgin 51 The Coronation of the Virgin and the Standing Virgin and Child 61 The Virgin Mary and Attitudes toward Women 68 Religious Life: The Monastic Experience 3· Historical Survey 78 The Reform Movements 81 The Order of Fontevrault 93 4-. Secular Life: Control of Property n6 5· Conclusion 14-5 Selected Bibliography 153 Index 177 vii Illustrations Note: Illustrations appear after page 72. Plate I Vezelay. Adoration of the Magi Plate 2 Chartres. Virgin and C~ild in Majesty Plate 3 Virgin and Child, French, school of Auvergne Plate 4 Senlis. Triumph of the Virgin Plate s Christ and sponsa, Paris, Bibl. nat. ms. lat. n6 Plate 6 Chartres. Triumph of the Virgin Plate 7 Paris, Notre-Dame. Coronation of the Virgin Plate 8 Amiens. Standing Virgin and Child Plate 9 Amiens. The Vierge doree ix
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