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

ISBN-13: 9781032082202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 168 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.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1: The Monastic Margaret: The Life of St. Anthony and Gregory’s Dialogues in the Life; Chapter 2: In the Belly of the Beast: Sexual Surrender and Resistance in the Life; Chapter 3: The Devil Made Me Do It – Audience Partitioning and the Life of St. Margaret; Chapter 4: Circumcising Olibrius: Threatening Sexuality and Religious Alterity in the Life of St. Margaret; Chapter 5: Paging Dr. Margaret: Prayers and Pregnancy in the Life of St. Margaret; Conclusion: The Metamorphosis of Monsters

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.