Juliette Vuille

Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature

Authority, Exemplarity and Femininity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 297
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781843845898
• ISBN-10: 184384589X
• Artikelnr.: 60094124

Autorenporträt

JULIETTE VUILLE is a Lecturer in Old and Middle English at the University of Lausanne.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: "Seo wæs ærest synnecge": The Holy Harlot's
Transformations in Old English Hagiography Chapter 2: The Post-Conquest
Harlot: Affective Piety and the Romance Genre Chapter 3: Heterodoxy,
Patronage, and the Harlot in 14th and 15th Century Hagiography Chapter 4:
"She shal byn abyll to dystroye helle": Gender and Authority in the Digby
Mary Magdalene/ Chapter 5: Admiranda et Imitanda?/ Emulation of the Holy
Harlot Type by Late Medieval Female Mystics Conclusion: Holy or Harlot? The
Early Modern Demise of the Saintly Prostitute Appendix: Vernacular Lives of
Holy Harlots in Medieval Insular Hagiography Bibliography