Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender write by John Kitchen. This book was released on 1998-08-13. Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medieval lives of female saints have attracted wide attention in recent years. Some scholars have argued that such texts reveal a distinctive form of female sanctity which only female hagiographers managed to properly articulate, and important writings have been attributed to female authors on that assumption. In this revisionist work, John Kitchen tests such claims through a close examination of several texts--lives of both male and female saints, by authors of both sexes--from sixth century France. He argues that sometimes the "authentic voice" of the female writer or saint sounds emphatically male. This study gives examples of how both male and female authors sometimes depicted holy women talking, acting, or even dressing like their male counterparts. Ultimately, the author aims to cast doubt on the assumption that male authors were ignorant of or hostile toward certain--specifically female--concerns. By the same token, Kitchen's work raises serious methodological problems with the gender approach to the hagiographic literature of the early Middle Ages.
Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender
Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender write by John Kitchen. This book was released on 1998. Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medieval lives of female saints have attracted wide attention in recent years. Some scholars have argued that such texts reveal a distinctive form of female sanctity which only female hagiographers managed properly to articulate, and important writings have been attributed to female authors on that assumption. In this revisionist work, John Kitchen tests such claims through a close examination of several texts-lives of both male and female saints, by authors of both sexes-from sixth century France. He argues that sometimes the "authentic voice" of the female writer or saint sounds emphatically male. This study gives examples of how both male and female authors sometimes depicted holy women talking, acting, or even dressing like their male counterparts. Ultimately, the author aims to cast doubt on the assumption that male authors were ignorant of or hostile toward certain-specifically female-concerns. By the same token, Kitchen's work raises serious methodological problems with the gender approach to the hagiographic literature of the early Middle Ages.
The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints
The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints write by Rhonda L McDaniel. This book was released on 2018-03-31. The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric's treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She first investigates patristic ideas about a "third gender" by describing this concept within the theoretical frameworks of monasticism and then turns to creating a historical and theological cultural context within which to locate an interpretation of Aelfric's portrayals of male and female saints.
Troubled Vision
Troubled Vision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Troubled Vision write by E. Campbell. This book was released on 2016-04-30. Troubled Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume represents an exciting array of scholarship dealing with visual and textual cultures from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth centuries. Bringing together a range of theoretical approaches that address the troubling effects of vision on medieval texts and images, the book mediates between medieval and modern constructions of gender and sexuality. Troubled Vision focuses thematically on four central themes: Desire, looking, representation and reading. Topics include the gender of the gaze, the visibility of queer desires, troubled representations of gender and sexuality, spectacle and reader response, and the visual troubling of modern critical categories.
Saintly Rhetoric
Saintly Rhetoric - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saintly Rhetoric write by Jeffery R. Hunt. This book was released on 2014. Saintly Rhetoric available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
