In this book, the author explores medieval society's fascination with the cross-dressed woman, examining a wide variety of religious, literary, and historical sources that recordedinterpretations of sartorial attempts to overcome gender hierarchy and also illustrate, mainly through the device of inversion, a remarkabley sustained desire to examine an reexamine the nature of social gender identities. Included in the study are investigations of the symbolism underlying the lives of popular transvestite saints; the confluence of hagiography and biography in the historical case of Hildegund von Schonau; the juridical and theological arguments for and against the transvestism of Jeanne d'Arc; the legend of the female pope; the phenomenon of the abandoned wife in male disguise; and the characterization of female protagonists in courtly romance who experience a crisis of sexual identity.
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"...a good research tool....worth reading." -- American Historical Review
"Makes excellent outside reading for advanced undergraduates. This book can instruct and interest readers of all levels." -- The Medieval Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Makes excellent outside reading for advanced undergraduates. This book can instruct and interest readers of all levels." -- The Medieval Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Middle Ages, Brother Joseph, Roman de Silence, King Oton, Christine de Pizan, Theodora of Alexandria, Tristan de Nanteuil, Angela of Bohemia, Jean Gerson, King Ebains, Ritter Alexander, Ritter Beringer, Vita Hildegundis New!
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Recent studies of women in the Middle Ages privileges the anomalous over the ordinary. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Brother Joseph, Roman de Silence, King Oton, Christine de Pizan, Theodora of Alexandria, Tristan de Nanteuil, Angela of Bohemia, Jean Gerson, King Ebains, Ritter Alexander, Ritter Beringer, Vita Hildegundis New!
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- Pope Joan by Emmanual Royidis in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- History of Britain 03 Middle by Tim Wood in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender by Vern L. Bullough in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, 350-450 AD by Gillian Cloke in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Female Pope: The Mystery of Pope Joan: The First Complete Documentation of the Facts behind the Legend by Rosemary Pardoe in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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