Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender : Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography.
Kitchen examines several texts - lives of both male and female saints, by authors of both sexes - from 6th century France. The result is to cast doubt on the assumption that male authors were ignorant of, or hostile to, specifically female concerns. It also raises methodological problems with the as...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Kitchen examines several texts - lives of both male and female saints, by authors of both sexes - from 6th century France. The result is to cast doubt on the assumption that male authors were ignorant of, or hostile to, specifically female concerns. It also raises methodological problems with the assignation of certain texts to female authors. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780195353617 0195353617 1280470410 9781280470417 0585254095 9780585254098 |