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Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender

Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography [Hardback]

by John Kitchen (centre For Medieval Studies, Centre For Medieval Studies, University Of Toronto)

    • Author

      John Kitchen (centre For Medieval Studies, Centre For Medieval Studies, University Of Toronto)

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      August 1998

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    Product Description

    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 assumption. In this revisionist work, John Kitchen tests such claims through a close examination of several texts-lives of both male and female saints, by authors of both sexes-from sixth century France. He argues that sometimes the "authentic voice" of the female writer or saint sounds emphatically male. This study gives examples of how both male and female authors sometimes depicted holy women talking, acting, or even dressing like their male counterparts. Ultimately, the author aims to cast doubt on the assumption that male authors were ignorant of or hostile toward certain-specifically female-concerns. By the same token, Kitchen's work raises serious methodological problems with the gender approach to the hagiographic literature of the early Middle Ages.

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    • Author

      John Kitchen (centre For Medieval Studies, Centre For Medieval Studies, University Of Toronto)

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      August 1998

    • Weight

      573g

    • Page Count

      272

    • Dimensions

      153 x 229 x 20 mm

    • ISBN

      9780195117226

    • ISBN-10

      0195117220

    • Eden Code

      1146750

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    • Author/Creator: John Kitchen (centre For Medieval Studies, Centre For Medieval Studies, University Of Toronto)

    • ISBN: 9780195117226

    • Publisher: Oxford University Press

    • Release Date: August 1998

    • Weight: 573g

    • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 20 mm

    • Eden Code: 1146750

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