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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kitchen, John, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.