Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 5007
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  • Title: The Use of Gender and Gender-Related Imagery in Hadewijch [focusing on how Hadewijch used gender-related imagery to create a language to address her female audience].
  • Source: Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages.  Edited by Jane Chance.  University Press of Florida, 1996.  Pages 52 - 68.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Courtly Love Feudalism in Literature Gender in Literature Hadewijch, Mystic Literature- Verse Mystics Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Low Countries
  • Century: 13
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  • Related Resources: Saskia M. Murk-Jansen suggests that a critical examination of the Dutch mystic Hadewijch has to be based on the understanding that medieval writers perceived themselves, at least in religious terms, much less defined by their gender than today. Whereas Ha
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  • Year of Publication: 1996.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0813013917