Saints' lives and the rhetoric of gender : male and female in Merovingian hagiography /

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Medieval lives of female saints have attracted wide attention in recent years. Some scholars have argued that such texts reveal a distinctive form of female sanctity which only female hagiographers managed properly to articulate, and important writings have been attributed to female authors on that...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kitchen, John, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
To 1500
Christian saints > History > Study and teaching > France.
Christian hagiography > History.
Sex role > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Saints chrétiens > Histoire > Étude et enseignement > France.
Hagiographie chrétienne > Histoire.
Rôle selon le sexe > Histoire des doctrines > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
RELIGION > Christianity > Saints & Sainthood.
Christian hagiography
Heiligenlevens.
Sekseverschillen.
Christendom.
France > Church history > To 987.
France > History > To 987.
France > Histoire religieuse > Jusqu'à 987.
France
Frankrijk.
Electronic books.
Church history
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Sancti
  • The prose hagiography of Venantius Fortunatus
  • Gregory of Tours Life of the Fathers
  • pt. II. Sanctae
  • "Like a man among men" : the female saint in a male corpus
  • Baudonivia's Life of Saint Radegund
  • Conclusion : A world turned upside-down.

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