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Record Number:
3584
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Elliott , Dylan.
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Title:
Dress as Mediator Between Inner and Outer Self: The Pious Matron of the High and Later Middle ages [Clothing often served as a saint's way of signifying the discrepancy between her percieved social standing (according to secular values) and her own individual selfhood (one based on spiritual beliefs). For married female saints, clothing was an even more complex form of symbolism as it often thwarted the wife's expected subordination to her husband while also projecting an image of virginity which was at odds with a married social persona. During the later Middle Ages, clergy began to endorse efforts to restrict the clothing of laywomen in order to maintain husbands' supremacy over their pious wives. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source:
Mediaeval Studies 53, ( 1991): Pages 279 - 308.
Description:
Article Type:
Journal Article
Subject
(See Also)
:
Authority
Clothing
Hagiography
Lay Piety
Marriage
Social Class
Spirituality
Sumptuary Laws
Virginity
Wives
Women in Religion
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General
Century:
General
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Author's Affiliation:
Indianna University
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1991.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
00765872