How should a woman behave and what are her duties? Guidelines for women presented in the selected sermons of Gilbert of Tournai

Anna Głusiuk

doi:10.21697/sc.2017.24.06en

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Vol. 24 (2017)

How should a woman behave and what are her duties? Guidelines for women presented in the selected sermons of Gilbert of Tournai

Anna Głusiuk

Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings

Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2017.24.06en

Abstract

The article presents the opinions of the 13th-century preacher Gilbert of Tournai on the duties of girls, wives and widows. Gilbert, seeing a great lack of women’s education addressed them in his sermons and indicated which behaviours were proper and which should be changed or avoided. His sermons show how the woman was seen, as well as what her position and role were in 13th-century French society.

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women, Gilbert of Tournai, behaviour, obligation, middle age

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Głusiuk, A. (2021). How should a woman behave and what are her duties? Guidelines for women presented in the selected sermons of Gilbert of Tournai. Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings, 24, 73–82. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2017.24.06en

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Anna Głusiuk

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Faculty of Historical and Social Sciences Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw Poland

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dr Anna Głusiuk, assistant professor at the Department of Middle Ages in the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University Institute of Historical and Social Sciences. Her research focuses on medieval literature, as well as on the position and role of women in the medieval era.