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Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature (Paperback)
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Drastic changes in lay religiosity during the High Middle Ages
spurred anxiety about women forsaking their secular roles as wives
and mothers for religious ones as nuns and beguines. This anxiety
and the subsequent need to model an ideal of feminine behavior for
the laity is particularly expressed in the German versions of Latin
and French narratives. Using thirteenth-century penitentials,
monastic exempla, and sermons, Karina Marie Ash clarifies how
secular wifehood was recast as a quasi-religious role and, in
German epics and romances from the late twelfth and early
thirteenth centuries, how female characters are adapted to promote
the salvific nature of worldly love in ways that echo the pastoral
reevaluation of women at that time. Then she argues that mid and
late thirteenth-century German literature not only reflects this
impulse to idealize women's roles in lay society but also to
promote an alternative model of femininity that deploys ways of
privileging secular roles for women over religious ones. These
continuously evolving readaptations of female protagonists across
cultures and across centuries reflect fictive solutions for real
historical concerns about women that not only complement
contemporary pastoral and legal reforms but are also unique to
medieval German literature.
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