„Płeć męska” i „płeć słaba”. Kobiety w Occupatio Odona z Cluny
Male Gender and Weak Gender. Women in Odo of Cluny’s Occupatio

Author(s): Karolina Białas
Subject(s): Ancient World, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Odo of Cluny; Christian anthropology; women in the Middle Ages; monastic theology; feminity in medieval sources
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present the image of women according to a 10th-century poem Occupatio written by Odo of Cluny. Odo describes his own vision of anthropology and human fall with particular emphasis on the role of Eve. She was the first channel of sin which affected all mankind. Odo presents female nature as extremely sinful. Women are associated only with carnal sins and lust, they cannot have any spiritual values. Occupatio is compared to Odo’s sermon in honour of Mary Magdalene to indicate the differences between two ways of presenting feminity in both sources.

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