03423nam 2200661Ia 450 991081087990332120200520144314.01-134-51488-31-134-51489-11-280-11114-30-203-99460-410.4324/9780203994603 (CKB)1000000000003221(EBL)235208(OCoLC)264445434(SSID)ssj0000161022(PQKBManifestationID)11161295(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161022(PQKBWorkID)10198855(PQKB)10585851(MiAaPQ)EBC235208(Au-PeEL)EBL235208(CaPaEBR)ebr5006436(CaONFJC)MIL11114(OCoLC)60842077(EXLCZ)99100000000000322120010927d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGender and holiness men, women, and saints in late medieval Europe /edited by Samantha J.E. Riches and Sarah SalihLondon ;New York Routledge20021 online resource (215 p.)Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and CultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-51088-0 0-415-25821-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction. Gender and holiness: performance and representation in the later Middle Ages; 'The law of sin that is in my members': the problem of male embodiment; The role of patronage and audience in the cults of Sts Margaret and Marina of Antioch; Virginal effects: text and identity in Ancrene Wisse; Pain, torture and death in the Huntington Library Legenda aurea; St George as a male virgin martyr; Becoming a virgin king: Richard II and Edward the ConfessorFemale piety and impiety: selected images of women in wall paintings in England after 1300Staging conversion: the Digby saint plays and The Book of Margery Kempe; Gendering charity in medieval hagiography; Ecce Homo; Bibliography; IndexThis collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may also cut across gender divisions and demand a break from normally gendered behaviour. This work of interdisciplinary cultural history includes contributions from historians, art historians and literary critics and will be of interest not only to medievalists, but also to students of religion and gendRoutledge Studies in Medieval Religion and CultureSexReligious aspectsChristianityChristian saintsEuropeHistoryTo 1500SexReligious aspectsChristianity.Christian saintsHistory241/.66/0902Riches Samantha1713409Salih Sarah1967-1713410MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810879903321Gender and holiness4106376UNINA