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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ash, Karina Marie

Titel

Keeping Female Religiosity a Secret in Der welsche Gast and Das Frauenbuch

Ist Teil von

• Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature, 2012, p.165-180

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter shows the secular life of a wife with the sacred life of a saint may have been a goal advanced by some early thirteenth-century courtly poets, some preachers, and some late thirteenth-century hagiographers, but the nobility and the Church appear to have been more interested in separating marriageable and married women from their saintly, celibate sisters as the century progressed. It explains how women fell under increasing attack for public expressions of their faith at this time and discusses how didactic literature also supported the idea that ladies should hide their religiosity unless they were officially cloistered behind convent walls. The chapter explores how the combination of the persecution of religious women through legal reforms and the education of the nobility through conduct literature encouraged women to keep their religiosity a secret. The practice of religious devotion at court instead of secular devotion to a knight is either chastised or ignored in courtly literature at this time.