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Record Number:
6778
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Flanagan , Sabina.
Contributor(s):
Title:
The Speculum virginum and Traditions of Medieval Dialogue
Source:
Listen, Daughter: The "Speculum virginum" and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages. Edited by Constant J. Mews. The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Pages 181 - 200.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Dialogue in Literature
Handbooks
Latin Literature
Monasticism
Speculum Virginum, Latin Handbook for Nuns
Women in Literature
Women in Religion
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
General
Century:
12
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
Table:
Abstract:
This chapter situates the "Speculum viginum" within the broader context of dialogue literature in the twelfth century. The genre was employed to provide instruction on a wide range of subjects. The "Speculum" is unusual, however, in that it adapts a literary technique normally employed to instruct boys and young men to an extended dialogue between a spiritual guide and his female disciple. Seen in this light, the "Speculum" emerges as a work of great creative originality that applies the questioning technique of scholastic literature to discussing the religious life for women in an unusually vivid way. [Reproduced by permission of Palgrave].
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Author's Affiliation:
University of Adelaide
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
2001.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0312240082