Gender and Holiness : Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe

ISBN-13: 9780415258210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 216 str.

S. Riches; Samantha Riches; Sarah Salih

Opis

This collection brings together two areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilize binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may also cut across gender divisions and demand a break from normally gendered behaviour.

Recenzje

'That so many of these essays succeed in being purely provocative is a testament to the quality of the book.' - Reformation

Spis treści

Introduction: Gender and Holiness: Performance and representation in the later Middle Ages  1. 'The Law of Sin that is in my Members': Problem of male embodiment  2. The Role of Patronage and Audience in the Cults of Sts Margaret and Marina of Antioch  3. Virginial Effects: Text and identity in Ancrene Wisse  4. Pain, Torture and Death in the Huntington Library  5. St George as a Virgin Martyr  6. Becoming a Virgin King: Richard II and Edward the Confessor  7. Female Piety and Impiety: Selected images of women in wall paintings in England after 1300  8. Staging Conversion: The Digby Saint plays and The Book of Margery Kempe  9. Gendering Charity in Medieval Hagiography  10. Ecce Homo

O autorze

Sarah Salih, Sam Riches