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Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography: Speaking the Saint (Routledge Research in Medieval Studies, 1)

By Gail Ashton

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1999
ISBN
0415182107, 9780415182102, 9780203170465
LCC
BX4656 .A85 2000
Open Library ID
OL40269M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
850 kB (870205 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
187\187
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

In this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of women saints in a wide range of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist critical theory of Cixous and Iriguray to illuminate these depictions of women by men and to further our understanding of both the lives and deeds of female saints and the contemporary, and almost always male, attitudes to them.

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