Eloquent Virgins: The Rhetoric of Virginity from Thecla to Joan of Arc

ISBN-13: 9781349623013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 250 str.

Maud Burnett McInerney; M. McInerney

Opis

The tales of the virgin martyrs inevitably emphasize the torture and mutilation of beautiful young women. This book explores the ability of the virgin body to generate contradictory meanings, both repressive and liberating, depending on who told the tale and how it was told.

Spis treści

Strange Triangle: Thecla, Perpetua, Tertullian Gender and Genre in the Fourth Century Hrotsvitha, Hildegard and the Virgin Community Margaret and Catherine, Martyrs at Court Pelagius, Alexis and the Problem of Male Virginity The Anchorite and the Virgin Martyr Epilogue: The Queerest Fish: Saint Joan

O autorze

MAUD BURNETT MCINERNEY teaches English and Medieval Studies at Haverford College.