Margaret's Monsters: Women, Identity, and the Life of St. Margaret in Medieval England

ISBN-13: 9780367187095 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 156 str.

Michael E. Heyes

Opis

The various Lives of St. Margaret functioned as a blueprint for a virginal life and supernatural assistance to pregnant women during the dangerous process of labor. This book argues that the monsters Margaret encounters in her narrative are a key element in understanding her importance to her adherents.

O autorze

Michael E. Heyes is Assistant Professor of Religion at Lycoming College. He has published within the field of monster studies, film, and medieval studies, and his edited volume – Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques: Monstrosity and Religion in Europe and the United States – contains contributions to all three topics. He is a general editor of The Journal of Gods and Monsters. This is his first monograph.