Gender and holiness : men, women, and saints in late medieval Europe /
This volume 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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
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2002.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Gender and holiness: performance and representation in the later Middle Ages / Samantha J.E. Rihes and Sarah Salih
- "The law of sin that is in my members": the problem of male embodiment / Jacqueline Murray
- The role of patronage and audience in the cults of Sts Margaret and Marina of Antioch / Wendy R. Larson
- Virginal effects: text and identity in Ancrene Wisse / Anke Bernau
- Pain, torture and death in the Huntington Library Legenda aurea / Martha Easton
- St George as a male virgin martyr / Samantha J.E. Riches
- Becoming a virgin king: Richard II and Edward the Confessor / Katherine J. Lewis
- Female piety and impiety: selected images of women in wall paintings in England after 1300 / Miriam Gill
- Staging conversion: the Digby saint plays and The book of Margery Kempe / Sarah Salih
- Gendering charity in medieval hagiography / P.H. Cullum
- Ecce homo / Robert Mills.
