The Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography : Speaking the Saint
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| Title: | The Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography : Speaking the Saint |
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| Description: | In this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of women saints in a wide range of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist critical theory of Cixous and Iriguray to illuminate these depictions of women by men and to further our understanding of both the lives and deeds of female saints and the contemporary, and almost always male, attitudes to them. |
| Authors: | Gail Ashton |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Christian women saints--Biography--History and criticism, Christian saints--Biography--History and criticism, Literature, Medieval--History and criticism, Christian hagiography |
| Categories: | HISTORY / General, RELIGION / History |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | In this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of women saints in a wide range of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist critical theory of Cixous and Iriguray to illuminate these depictions of women by men and to further our understanding of both the lives and deeds of female saints and the contemporary, and almost always male, attitudes to them. |
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| ISBN: | 9780415182102 9781138867901 9780203170465 9781134674497 9781134674480 9781134674466 9780203004913 |
