The Distaff Gospels

{{Short description|1480 collection of popular beliefs}}

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{{Expand French|Les Évangiles des quenouilles|date=September 2017}}

The Distaff Gospels (Les Evangiles des Quenouilles) is an Old French fifteenth-century collection of popular beliefs held by late medieval women, first published in 1480.{{Cn|date=March 2024}} It was edited by Fouquart de Cambray, Duval Antoine and Jean d'Arras{{Cite journal |last=Small |first=Susan |date=2009 |title=The Distaff Gospels: A First Modern English Edition of Les Évangiles des Quenouilles (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/268488 |journal=University of Toronto Quarterly |volume=78 |issue=1 |pages=232–233 |doi=10.1353/utq.0.0361 |issn=1712-5278|url-access=subscription }} and published at Bruges by Colart Mansion.{{Cn|date=March 2024}} The narrative takes place within the context of a gathering of women who meet with their spindles and distaffs to spin. They discuss folk wisdom related to their domestic lives, including controlling errant husbands, predicting the gender of future offspring and curing common ailments.{{Cn|date=March 2024}}