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The generation of identity in late medieval hagiography
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ISBN: 113467449X 1280334827 0203004914 0203170466 9780203170465 9780203004913 9780415182102 0415182107 9786610334827 661033482X 9781134674442 9781134674480 9781134674497 9781138867901 Year: 2000 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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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.


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Medieval English prose for women : the "Katherine group" and Ancrene wisse
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Year: 1990 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press


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The Mildrith legend : a study in early medieval hagiography in England.
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ISBN: 0718512014 Year: 1982 Publisher: Leicester Leicester university press

The lady as saint : a collection of French hagiographic romances of the thirteenth century
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ISBN: 081223099X 0812213807 1336015144 0585199752 0812292308 9780812230994 9780812213805 Year: 1991 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Among the thirteenth-century saints exalted are female martyrs and hermits of early Christianity. In The Lady as Saint, Brigitte Cazelles offers the first English translation of these lives and provides extensive commentary on the portrayal of female spirituality.

St. Teresa of Avila : author of a heroic life
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ISBN: 0520088026 0585178399 9780520088023 Year: 1995 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press

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With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle, and other works? What does the self-portrait of this sixteenth-century nun, mystic, and founder of convents reveal about its author, the church, state, and role of women?St. Teresa of Avila, an innovative analysis of Teresa's autobiographical writings, explores these and many other questions. Bringing to bear a knowledge of Inquisition studies, theory of autobiography, scriptural hermeneutics, and hagiography, Carole Slade defines Teresa's writings as a project of self-interpretation undertaken mainly as the result of the perceived, later realized, threat of an accusation of heresy. Being female and of paternal Jewish ancestry, Teresa was vulnerable to such a charge. Teresa's writing project presented her with serious difficulties. Judicial confession, her prescribed genre, presumed the writer's guilt, while the subordinate female script precluded a defense against the suspicion that her mystical experiences came from the devil. Through careful textual analysis, Slade demonstrates that Teresa exploited the nuances of numerous genres - hagiography, New World chronicle, mystical theological treatise, and early novel - to create an innocent textual persona and depict herself in heroic terms. A signal contribution to our understanding of Teresa's rhetorical and literary talent and life circumstances, this book will engage readers across a broad range of disciplines. Publisher's description


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Elisabeth of Schönau : a Twelfth-Century visionary
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ISBN: 0812231236 1512801763 0585126577 9780812231236 Year: 1992 Volume: *9 Publisher: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press

Goscelin of Saint-Bertin : the hagiography of the female Saints of Ely
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ISBN: 0198208154 9780198208150 Year: 2004 Volume: *37 Publisher: Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press

Geoffrey of Burton : life and miracles of St Modwenna
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ISBN: 0198206062 9780198206064 Year: 2002 Volume: *35 Publisher: Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press

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