Chapter 3. Constructing the Woman’s Mirror

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART ONE: READING AS SPONSA ET MATER
8. Chapter 1. Mutations of the Reading Woman 17
9. Chapter 2. Reading as Mary Did 43
10. Chapter 3. Constructing the Woman’s Mirror 89
11. Chapter 4. Seeking the Reader/ Viewer of the St Albans Psalter 135
12. PART TWO: READING THE WIDOWED BRIDE
13. Chapter 5. Quae est ista, quae ascendit? (Canticles 3:6): Rethinking the Woman Reader in Early Old French Literature 195
14. Chapter 6. Ego dilecto meo et dilectus meus mihi (Canticles 6:2): Mary’s Reading and the Epiphany of Empathy 229
15. Chapter 7. A New Poetics for Âventiure: The Exposition of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival 277
16. Chapter 8. The Heart, the Wound, and the Word— Sacred and Profane 325
17. Conclusion 375
18. Appendix: The Prologue to Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival 381
19. List of Works Cited 385
20. Index 411