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