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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455258603321

Autore

Ashton Gail <1957->

Titolo

The generation of identity in late medieval hagiography [[electronic resource] ] : speaking the saint / / Gail Ashton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-67449-X

1-280-33482-7

0-203-00491-4

0-203-17046-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in medieval studies ; ; 1

Disciplina

235/.2/082

Soggetti

Christian women saints - History and criticism

Literature, Medieval - History and criticism

Christian hagiography - History - To 1500

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-171) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; PART I; 1 Narration and narratorial control: the masculine voice; Mirk's Festial; The Life of St Katherine of Alexandria; Early South-English Legendary; Legendys of Hooly Wummen; The Golden Legend; The Canterbury Tales; Saint Cecilia: a fissured text; Notes; PART II; 2 A concept of space and a notion of identity; Psychological space; Physical space; St Katherine; Maternity, paternity, and kinship; Notes; 3 Articulating an identity: speech, silence, and self-disclosure; Speech and silence

Patient control: a mimesisSt Katherine; Other voices: tears, melody, and angels; Notes; 4 Written on the body; Imitatio Christi: the site of the abject; Torture and violence: the rhythm of blood; Notes; Conclusion: song of the saint; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.