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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Literature

Grantor

Texas State University-San Marcos

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Sims, Laura

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Laird, Edgar

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Jackson, Rebecca
• Skerpan-Wheeler, Elizabeth

• 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

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

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

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.library.txst.edu:10877/2484