Rhetoricizing Body and Ritual: Women Writing in the Middle Ages
This thesis applies Victor Turner's ritual theories to the writings of Heloise, Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe. I argue that medieval women writers create social dramas within their texts in order to accomplish those ritual transformations which remain unattainable through their personal experiences.
Heloise, de Pizan, Christine, Book of the City of Ladies, Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, Kempe, Margery, Turner, Victor, rituals, medieval women, women writers
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