ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author argues that – despite the stated audience of “men, women, virgins” – the Paris version itself betrays this influence by addressing issues of importance to a group of male monastics in the black demon’s speech. He addresses the Paris version and the monastic influences on the text. The author focuses on the audience partition in the Katherine Group version. While the imitatio of the draconic visitation was used to inform the sexual identities of both mothers and virgins, St. Margaret’s narrative could also be used to inform the identities of other groups as well. The demon’s claims are by no means ubiquitously focused on sexuality in the CCC version Margaret as they were in the Katherine Group version or the Paris version, and the vague reference to seduction is significantly displaced from the other two sexual sins in the list.
