A Legend Of Holy Women
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A Legend Of Holy Women
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Author : Osbern Bokenham
language : en
Publisher: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press
Release Date : 1992
A Legend Of Holy Women written by Osbern Bokenham and has been published by Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Art categories.
Sheila Delany's spirited translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legendys of Hooly Wummen (1443-1447) makes available in modern English the first all-female hagiography. Closely translated from elaborate, Latinate Middle English verse into fluent prose, A Legend of Holy Women contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology, and high-medieval history. As Delany writes in her comprehensive introduction, "Bokenham gives us not only an all-female hagiography--an authorial decision significant in its own right--but a gallery of powerful, articulate women who are indubitably worthy to do God's work. Some of them are well-educated, some give sound political advice to a monarch, some preach, converting hundreds and thousands to Christianity, some walk on water or perform resurrection. Nor are they pacifists; on the contrary, they call for divinely inflicted vengeance and approve violence in their cause." Delany argues that Geoffrey Chaucer's Legend of Good Women provided a principle of selection and of arrangement for Bokenham's array of saints. She suggests further that the friar's choice of all-female hagiography, and his poetic representation of holy women, are closely linked to patronage and politics in fifteenth-century England. The translation is accompanied by full notes which, along with the introduction, make the book accessible to a wide audience. It will appeal to all readers interested in the representation of women in late-medieval culture as well as to scholars and students in medieval, renaissance, religious, and women's studies.
Holy Men And Holy Women
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Author : Paul E. Szarmach
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1996-10-03
Holy Men And Holy Women written by Paul E. Szarmach and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-03 with Religion categories.
This is a collection of essays on the literature of "saints' lives" in Anglo-Saxon literature.
Middle English Legends Of Women Saints
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Author : Martha G Blalock
language : en
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Release Date : 2003-03-01
Middle English Legends Of Women Saints written by Martha G Blalock and has been published by Medieval Institute Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Middle English Legends of Women Saints presents a collection of saints' Lives intended to suggest the diversity of possibilities beneath the supposedly fixed and predictable surfaces of the legends, using multiple retellings of the same legend to illustrate that medieval readers and listeners did not just passively receive saints' legends but continually and actively appropriated them. The collection opens with legends about two royal (or supposedly royal) women, Frideswide and Mary Magdelen, and continues with those of three popular virgin martyrs, Margaret of Antioch, Christina of Tyre, and Katherine of Alexandria. The final portion of the collection is devoted to St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. The collection includes a number of relatively unknown texts that have not appeared in print since Horstmann's transcriptions in the nineteenth century and a few that have never before been published.
Sacred Fictions
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Author : Lynda L. Coon
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2010-11-24
Sacred Fictions written by Lynda L. Coon and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lynda Coon unpacks these paradoxical representations to reveal the construction and circumscription of women's roles in the early Christian centuries. Coon discerns three distinct paradigms for female sanctity in saints' lives and patristic and monastic writings. Women are recurrently figured as repentant desert hermits, wealthy widows, or cloistered ascetic nuns, and biblical discourse informs the narrative content, rhetorical strategies, and symbolic meanings of these texts in complex and multivalent ways. If hagiographers made their women saints walk on water, resurrect the dead, or consecrate the Eucharist, they also curbed the power of women by teaching that the daughters of Eve must make their bodies impenetrable through militant chastity or spiritual exile and must eradicate self-indulgence through ascetic attire or philanthropy. The windows the sacred fiction of holy women open on the past are far from transparent; driven by both literary invention and moral imperative, the stories they tell helped shape Western gender constructs that have survived into modern times.
Women Of The Gilte Legende
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Author : Jacobus (de Voragine)
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2003
Women Of The Gilte Legende written by Jacobus (de Voragine) and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Christian women saints categories.
This book is a prose translation of a selection of women saints' lives from the Gilte Legende, the Middle English version of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea, one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages. Because of its popularity and subject matter, the Gilte Legende was widely read and used as a model for everyday life, including the education of women through examples set by early Christian martyrs. Many of the women saints spoke passionately about their convictions and defended their faith and their bodies to the death. For over 400 years, these amazing vernacular stories have been inaccessible to a wider audience. This book divides the lives of female saints into: the "ryght hooly virgins", who vocally defend their bodies against Roman persecution; "holy mothers", who give up their traditional role to pursue a life of contemplation; the 'repentant sinners', who convert and voice their defiance against a society that demanded silence in women; and the "holy transvestites", who cast off their gender identity to find absolution and salvation. Their lives reach through the ages to speak to a modern audience, academic and non-academic, forcing a re-examination of women's roles in the medieval period. LARISSA TRACY is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University and George Mason University. Series editor JANE CHANCE
Medieval Holy Women In The Christian Tradition C 1100 C 1500
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Author : Alastair J. Minnis
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 2010
Medieval Holy Women In The Christian Tradition C 1100 C 1500 written by Alastair J. Minnis and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Christian women categories.
Survey chapters on each geographical region and essays on both well- and lesser-known women who contributed to the efflorescence of female piety and visionary experience.
Women Writing Back Writing Women Back
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-05-25
Women Writing Back Writing Women Back written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-25 with History categories.
Privileging both a transnational and a sociological approach, this volume explores the position of women in the early modern literary field, emphasising the international scope of their literature and examining their historical position, influence, network and dialogues.
Women Writing Back Writing Women Back
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Author : Anke Gilleir
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010
Women Writing Back Writing Women Back written by Anke Gilleir and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Criticism categories.
Privileging both a transnational and a sociological approach, this volume explores the position of women in the early modern literary field, emphasising the international scope of their literature and examining their historical position, influence, network and dialogues.
Reading Memory And Identity In The Texts Of Medieval European Holy Women
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Author : M. Cotter-Lynch
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-03-14
Reading Memory And Identity In The Texts Of Medieval European Holy Women written by M. Cotter-Lynch and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-14 with History categories.
Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses of memory.
Holy Women Of Byzantium
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Author : Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Release Date : 1996
Holy Women Of Byzantium written by Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
These ten holy women, whose vitae range from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, represent a wide variety of Byzantine female saints. From nuns disguised as monks to desert harlots, these holy women exemplify some of the divergent paths to sanctification in Byzantium. These vitae are also notable for their details of Byzantine life, providing information on family life and household management, monastic routines, and even a smallpox epidemic. Life of St. Mary/Marinos Life of St. Matrona of Perge Life of St. Mary of Egypt Life of St. Theoktiste of Lesbos Life of St. Elisabeth the Wonderworker Life of St. Athanasia of Aegina Life of St. Theodora of Thessalonike Life of St. Mary the Younger Life of St. Thoma s of Lesbos Life of St. Theodora of Arta