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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Author's Note; I: Introduction: Methods and Metaphors; 2 The Prose Hagiography of Venantius Fortunatus; 3 Gregory of Tours's Life of the Fathers; 4 "Like a Man among Men": The Female Saint in a Male Corpus; 5 Baudonivia's Life of Saint Radegund; 6 Conclusion: A World Turned Upside-Down; Appendix: Tabular Comparison of Miracle Stories in the Lives of Radegund; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W.