LEADER 03423nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910952265003321 005 20251117120007.0 010 $a1-134-51488-3 010 $a1-134-51489-1 010 $a1-280-11114-3 010 $a0-203-99460-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203994603 035 $a(CKB)1000000000003221 035 $a(EBL)235208 035 $a(OCoLC)264445434 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000161022 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11161295 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161022 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10198855 035 $a(PQKB)10585851 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC235208 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL235208 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr5006436 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL11114 035 $a(OCoLC)60842077 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000003221 100 $a20010927d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGender and holiness $emen, women, and saints in late medieval Europe /$fedited by Samantha J.E. Riches and Sarah Salih 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (215 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-415-51088-0 311 08$a0-415-25821-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 Confessor 327 $aFemale 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; Index 330 $aThis collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may also cut across gender divisions and demand a break from normally gendered behaviour. This work of interdisciplinary cultural history includes contributions from historians, art historians and literary critics and will be of interest not only to medievalists, but also to students of religion and gend 410 0$aRoutledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture 606 $aSex$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aChristian saints$zEurope$xHistory$yTo 1500 615 0$aSex$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aChristian saints$xHistory 676 $a241/.66/0902 701 $aRiches$b Samantha$01872922 701 $aSalih$b Sarah$f1967-$01872923 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910952265003321 996 $aGender and holiness$94482775 997 $aUNINA