Sam Riches / Sarah Salih (eds.)

Gender and Holiness

Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe
Herausgeber: Riches, Sam; Salih, Sarah

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 167mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780415258210
• ISBN-10: 0415258219
• Artikelnr.: 22229578

Autorenporträt

Sarah Salih, Sam Riches

Inhaltsangabe

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