INDEX

Abraham, 251 beguines, 264–267 Agnes of , , 185, Bel Acuel (Roman de le rose), 35–36; Wife 196–197; community and, 89; cults of Bath and, 43 and, 90; miracles and, 79, 83; vows Bennett, Judith, 134 and, 112 Berne, Switzerland, 225 Alatiel (Decamerone), 60 Bettin, Harmut, 228 Albertus Magnus, 28 Birgitta of Sweden, Saint,133, 185, Alison (Wife of Bath), 21, 39–43, 45–48, 202–203, 212–15, 223; breastfeeding 205, 218; Book of the Knight of La and, 125–126; caregivers and, Tour-Landry and, 69; clothing 127; childbirth and, 102–105, 114; and, 41–44; exempla and, 63–64; cults and, 90; femininity and, 91; intercessors and, 120; Italian satirical intercessors and, 121; objects and, allegory and, 60; mobility and, 30–31; 236; pilgrimage and, 267; Vadstena Quinze Joyes de Mariage and, 50; social and, 208–12, 214–17; vows and, 107, hierarchy and, 44; suffering and, 106; 110, 112 The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and Black Death, 44, 223 the Wedo and, 53, 56 Blancha, 104–105 allegory, 56–60; Italy and, 56, 58–62; blindness, 100–101; childbirth and, 102 mobility and, 30–34; Roman de la rose Boccaccio, Giovanni, 31, 57–59, 61; and, 35–39; Wife of Bath and, 39. exempla and, 63 See also satire bodily womanhood, 5–6, 20, 129. Alphabet of Tales (Arnold of Liège), 25, See also grace; illness 62, 64–67, 128 Bologna, Italy, 171, 175, 186; femininity Amant (Roman de la rose), 32–34, 36 and, 91; vows and, 110 Amis (Roman de la rose), 32–33, 36; Book Bolton, Brenda, 82 of the Knight of La Tour-Landry and, 70; Boniface VIII, Pope, 8 Wife of Bath and, 41 Boniface, Saint, 7–8 Anglo-Saxons, 7, 11, 133 Book of Margery Kempe (Kempe), 13, anthropology, 4, 14 136–137, 165, 259; spiritual Apostles, 251 pilgrimage and, 241 Aquinas, Thomas, 178 Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry, The Archer, Rowena E., 230 (Geoffroy VI de La Tour-Landry), 62, Arnold of Guelders, 146 67–70; proscriptive literature and, 75 Arnold of Liège, 64. See also Alphabet of books of hours, 117. See also Catherine Tales of Cleves Artois, Mahaute d’, 224 brandea, 234 asceticism, 6, 263 breastfeeding, 124–126, 238–239 Atenance Contrainte (Roman de la rose), Brown, Peter, 7; and, 81 35, 38 Brown-Grant, Rosalind: exempla and, Avignon, France, 61 63; proscriptive literature and, 72 Ayselena, 104 Bugnac prés Tarabel, France, 183 Bynum, Carolyn, 16, 144 badges, 21, 188–192, 194–195, 198, 200 beati, 83 Caciola, Nancy, 17, 204–205, 224 Beatrice (Divine Comedy), 61 , 83; intercessors and, 129; Beebe, Katheryne, 252 miracles and, 81–82; saints and, 86 302 index canon law, 138–42, 176; Jerusalem and, clothing, 41–44, 47; Alphabet of Tales 143–147; vows and, 106 and, 67; Book of the Knight of La Canterbury, England, 14 Tour-Landry and, 69–70; Pope Joan Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 21; exempla and, 65–66; propriety and, 77; and, 63; mobility and, 30. See also proscriptive literature and, 76; Quinze Wife of Bath’s tale Joyes de Mariage and, 51; Roman de la Cantilupe, Thomas, Saint (of Hereford), rose and, 37–38; Tretis of the Twa Mariit 82 Wemen and the Wedo and, 55–56 Capgrave, John, 159–160 Cohen, Esther, 102 Capus, Brulhes, 192 community, 4, 14–15, 203–204, 212–13; Carcassone Inquisition, 175 Birgitta and, 214–17; caregivers and, caregivers, 5, 127–128; childbirth 127; grace and, 124; pilgrimage and, and, 102; femininity and, 91, 93; 263–265, 267; saints and, 88–89, 129; intercessors and, 115, 129; miracles Vadstena and, 207–211, 214–218 and, 79–83; pilgrimage and, 262, conditional vows, 109–111. See also vows 265; saints and, 114, 129; consolamentum (Cathar sacrament), 184 pilgrimages and, 18–19. See also Contarini, Agostino, 168 femininity; grace; illness Coppir, Christina, 186, 196, 203–207, Carthusians, 165 212–213, 219; community and, Castile, 145 207–211, 214–18; objects and, 236 Catharism, 178, 180, 183–184, 191 corporate Christianity, 14–15, 139. Catherine of Cleves, 145–146, 151; See also community Hours of, 146–50 courtesy literature, 18, 62 Cave of the Lactation, 238 courtly love, 30, 32, 44, 53; Roman de la charitable bequests, 225–226, 242–243 rose and, 37 Chastity (Roman de la rose), 33 Crete, 170 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 30–31, 54, 63, 78; cross badges (on heretics), 21, 188–92, Canterbury Tales, 21; proscriptive 194–95, 198, 200 literature and, 74; Wife of Bath and, crucifi xion, 222, 256, 258; objects and, 234 39–40, 48 Crusades, 8–9, 223 childbirth, 103–104, 114; Birgitta Cubis, Guido, 99 and, 105; healing and, 101–102; cults of the saints, 89–90. See also saints; intercessors and, 115–116; visions ; specifi c saints and, 113 Curia, 82, 89, 107 Chrétien de Troyes, 198–199 curiositas, 21 Christ, Jesus, 136, 143, 173, 222, 234, Cuthbert, Archbishop of Canterbury, 7 251; spiritual pilgrimage and, 257–259; breastfeeding and, 126; Daniell, Christopher, 232 healing and, 100; humanity of, 180; Dante Alighieri, 31, 61, 78 imitatio sancti and, 117; miracles and, Dauphine, Saint, 104; cults and, 90; 80; objects and, 234 vows and, 109, 112 Christina (wife of Laurence), 112–113 Decamerone (Boccaccio), 31, 57 Christine de Pizan, 13, 63; misogyny deceit, 24, 29; misogyny and, 78; and, 78; pilgrimage and, 262; pilgrimage and, 262; Quinze Joyes de propriety and, 77; proscriptive Mariage and, 52; Wife of Bath and, 48 literature and, 72–75 demoniacs, 19, 100, 112, 206–10, 224; Church of Saint Mary of Carmel, 223 Birgitta and, 214–17; community Church of the Nativity (Bethlehem), and, 211–15; heresy and, 180–181, 239, 248 185–87; pilgrimage and, 263; class, 4, 14–15, 140; Alphabet of Tales punishment and, 196–198, 201, 203–204 and, 67; clothing and, 44; moral desert fathers, 80 condemnation and, 23; pilgrimage devotion, 1, 3–5, 9, 11; canonization and, 261–262; Wedo and, 53; Wife of and, 83; pilgrimage and, 261; shrine Bath and, 40, 48 pilgrimages and, 18