Rhetoricizing Body and Ritual: Women Writing in the Middle Ages
type: CreativeWork
description: 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.
abstract: 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.
author: Sims, Laura
language: en
keywords: 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
date published: 2010-12
date modified: 2026-07-27T21:22:53Z
provider: Texas State University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Texas State University-San Marcos

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value: https://hdl.handle.net/10877/2484