The Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography: Speaking the Saint (Routledge Research in Medieval Studies)
by Gail Ashton
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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.Tags
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Gail Ashton is an academic, writer and poet with research and publishing interests in medieval and women's literature, poetry and contemporary literary theory. Recent books include Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (Continuum, 2007) and the co-edited Teaching Chaucer (Palgrave, 2007).
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- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, History, Literature Studies and Criticism, Biography & Memoir
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- 235.2 — Religion Christianity Spiritual beings Saints
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- BX4656 .A85 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christian Denominations Christian Denominations Catholic Church Biography and portraits Collective Saints and martyrs
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