Mirrors of Virtue: Holy Virgins and Models for Womanhood in Early Icelandic Verse

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • van Deusen, Natalie

• SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: Project aims to catalogue, edit and analyze Early Modern Icelandic religious poetry whose subjects are virgin martyr saints. The project seeks to demonstrate the critical role of the poems within Early Modern Icelandic religious and social thought as prescriptive models for female virtue and purity, and examines how they may have helped shape modern ideals of female sexuality in Iceland and, by extension, Icelandic settlements in Canada. It also considers the reception of these poems, and evidence of resistance to these restrictive models of femininity and interest in alternate interpretations.

• Date created

  2015-10-14

• Subjects / Keywords

  • IG
  • Medieval
  • Femininity
  • Martyr
  • Canada
  • Oral Tradition
  • Gender
  • Successful SSHRC
  • Poetry
  • Behaviours
  • Manuscripts
  • Scandinavia
  • Insight Grant
  • Religious Studies
  • 1500-1800
  • Iceland
  • Virgins
  • Literature
  • Decorum
  • 2016
  • Saints
  • Sexuality
  • Prescriptive texts
  • Women's Studies
  • Violence
  • 1550
  • Canada
  • Iceland

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R38K7501D

• License

  © van Deusen, Natalie. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2024.