Description: Further DetailsTitle: Women from the Golden LegendCondition: NewEAN: 9781855662292ISBN: 9781855662292Publisher: Tamesis BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/20/2011Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Emma GatlandLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Female Authority in a Medieval Castilian SanctoralISBN-10: 1855662299Description: This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sanctorals, and the twenty-five female saints witnessed therein. Included in the study are transcriptions of twenty-two previously unedited lives.Hagiography was one of the most prolific narrative genres in the Middle Ages. Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend (c. 1260), the most popular compendium, was translated into every language in Western Europe. In the medievalIberian peninsula, the number of conserved hagiographic documents dwarfs those belonging to other narrative genres. This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sanctorals, and the twenty-five female saints witnessed therein. Their lives furnished exemplary models for women inside and outside the Church, and tell stories of maidens tortured by pagan sovereigns, prostitutes, mothers who see their sons martyred, and women who dress as men in orderto avoid being married off to the nearest suitor. This study challenges an understanding of these women as passive recipients of social and spiritual influence by re-situating female authority within the context of vision, language, and performativity. Included in the study are transcriptions of twenty-two previously unedited lives. Emma Gatland is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Monografías AItem Weight: 1gTopic: History, Society & Culture, Gender Sex & RelationshipsRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Women from the Golden Legend
Title: Women from the Golden Legend
EAN: 9781855662292
ISBN: 9781855662292
Release Date: 10/20/2011
Release Year: 2011
Subtitle: Female Authority in a Medieval Castilian Sanctoral
ISBN-10: 1855662299
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
Number of Pages: 266 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Women from the Golden Legend : Female Authority in a Medieval Castilian Sanctoral
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Medieval, European / Spanish & Portuguese, Christianity / Catholic, Religious
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.7 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Biography & Autobiography
Item Length: 8.3 in
Author: Emma Gatland
Series: Issn Ser.
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
