Medieval women...

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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Subversive images of women in Medieval English literature : a selective reading - Medievalists.net

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The resistance that women characters in medieval literatures pose to the hegemonic ideology is a matter of particular interest of this paper.