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Women from the Golden legend : female authority in a medieval Castilian sanctoral / Emma Gatland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gatland, Emma.
- Series:
- Colección Támesis. Monografías ; Serie A, 296.
- Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 296
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Women saints--Biography.
- Women saints.
- Christian hagiography.
- Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298. Legenda aurea.
- Jacobus.
- Spanish literature--To 1500--History and criticism.
- Spanish literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 257 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge, Suffolk : Tamesis, 2011.
- Summary:
- Hagiography was one of the most prolific narrative genres in the Middle Ages. Jacobus de Voragine's 'Golden Legend', the most popular compendium, was translated into every language in Western Europe. This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sanctorals, and the 25 female saints witnessed therein.
- Contents:
- Introduction 1
- Hagiography and Female Saints' Lives 1
- Women, Sanctity, and Power 4
- The Castilian santorales 9
- Medieval Theories of auctoritas 13
- Vision, Language, and Performativity 20
- 1 Vision 25
- Vision and Space 25
- Vision and Power 28
- Vision and Desire 30
- Case Studies 33
- Conclusions 56
- 2 Language 60
- Language and the Fall 60
- Language and habitus 62
- Language and Agency 65
- Language and Liminality 67
- Case Studies 69
- Conclusions 94
- 3 Performativity 97
- Naming as Performative Ritual 97
- Case studies: Compilation A 101
- Case studies: Compilation B (Esc h-I-14) 107
- Conclusions 125.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781855662292
- 1855662299
- OCLC:
- 704381390
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