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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Ashton has endeavored to let women's own voices be heard in the fissures of medieval hagiographical texts. Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies. October 2002 .
. . .encourages a healthy suspicion both of the contents and intentions of medieval female saints' and of those who attempt to deconstruct them.
–The Medieval Review
. . .encourages a healthy suspicion both of the contents and intentions of medieval female saints' and of those who attempt to deconstruct them.
–The Medieval Review
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What, if anything, do a range of tales focusing upon the lives of female saints and largely written in the vernacular somewhere between 1200 and 1500, all by men, have in common? Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth of Hungary, Mary of Egypt, Holy Ghost, Mary of Oignies, Early South-English Legendary, The Canterbury Tales, Jill Mann, Christina Mirabilis, Clare of Assisi, Jesu Christ, Mirk's Festial, Pope Urban, Elizabeth of Spalbeck, Jacobus de Voragine, Bishop Hostence, Caroline Walker Bynum, Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale, Christ's Passion, David Aers, Immaculate Conception, John the Baptist, Margery Kempe, Sarah Beckwith New!
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What, if anything, do a range of tales focusing upon the lives of female saints and largely written in the vernacular somewhere between 1200 and 1500, all by men, have in common? Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth of Hungary, Mary of Egypt, Holy Ghost, Mary of Oignies, Early South-English Legendary, The Canterbury Tales, Jill Mann, Christina Mirabilis, Clare of Assisi, Jesu Christ, Mirk's Festial, Pope Urban, Elizabeth of Spalbeck, Jacobus de Voragine, Bishop Hostence, Caroline Walker Bynum, Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale, Christ's Passion, David Aers, Immaculate Conception, John the Baptist, Margery Kempe, Sarah Beckwith New!
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- Canterbury Tales (Barron's Book Notes) by Chaucer on 6 pages
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer on 6 pages
- Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages by Judith M. Bennett on 5 pages
- Women of the Medieval World by Julius Kirshner on 4 pages
- Piers Plowman (Norton Critical Editions) by William Langland on 4 pages
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- Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages by Kathleen Coyne Kelly in Front Matter
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