Women from the Golden Legend

Name: Women from the Golden Legend
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By Emma Gatland

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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 medieval Iberian 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, tell stories of maidens tortured by pagan sovereigns, prostitutes, mothers who see their sons martyred, and women who dress as men in order to 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.

Product details

Number of Pages:: 266
Release Date:: 2011-10-20
Publication Date:: 2011-10-20
Publisher:: Tamesis
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1855662299
ISBN13:: 9781855662292
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 567 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 19 cm

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