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Saints' lives and the rhetoric of gender : male and female in Merovingian hagiography / John Kitchen.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Kitchen, John, 1963- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian saints--France--History--Study and teaching.
- Christian saints.
- Christian hagiography--History.
- Christian hagiography.
- Sex role--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Sex role.
- France--Church history--To 987.
- France.
- France--History--To 987.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Medieval lives of female saints have attracted wide attention in recent years. In this revisionist work, John Kitchen looks at several texts-lives of both male and female saints.
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Author's Note; I: Introduction: Methods and Metaphors; 2 The Prose Hagiography of Venantius Fortunatus; 3 Gregory of Tours's Life of the Fathers; 4 ""Like a Man among Men"": The Female Saint in a Male Corpus; 5 Baudonivia's Life of Saint Radegund; 6 Conclusion: A World Turned Upside-Down; Appendix: Tabular Comparison of Miracle Stories in the Lives of Radegund; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1998.
- Revision of author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Toronto, 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-774105-3
- 1-280-47041-0
- 0-19-535361-7
- 0-585-25409-5
- OCLC:
- 476011858
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