Mujeres bíblicas como modelos de conducta femenina a finales de la Edad Media
- 1 (Instituto Universitario de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, Universidad de La Laguna (España)
ISSN: 1131-6810, 2530-8343
Year of publication: 2019
Issue: 30
Pages: 45-60
Type: Article
More publications in: Fortunatae: Revista canaria de Filología, Cultura y Humanidades Clásicas
Abstract
This paper is part of the research project «Female Archetypes in French Medieval Treatises for Women’s Education» (MINECO FFI-2016-76165-P), which is being carried out within the Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (IEMYR) at Universidad de La Laguna. The aim of this paper is to analyze the paradigms of female behavior which are repeated in different medieval works written in French and concerned with instructing women, thus offering models of behavior. Many of these archetypes are taken from the Bible (Susanna, Sarah, Rebekah, Bathsheba, Esther, Judith, etc.) and they are linked to a former tradition which shaped them until they became role models for women in the Middle Ages.