Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 17923
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Heene , Katrien.
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  • Title: Gender and Mobility in the Low Countires: Travelling Women in Thirteenth-Century Exempla and Saints Lives [The author examines Latin saints' lives and exempla, didactic stories used to teach moral and religious values, for mentions of women travelling. Although the clerical authors thought that women's mobility ought to be restricted, this does not appear to have lessened women's travels, particularly for religious pilgrimages. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: The Texture of Society: Medieval Women in the Southern Low Countries.  Edited by Ellen E. Kittell and Mary A. Suydam.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.  Pages 31 - 49.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Exempla, Literary Genre Hagiography Latin Literature Pilgrimage Travel Women in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: Low Countries
  • Century: 13
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  • Year of Publication: 2004.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0312293321