Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography

by John Kitchen

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195117220
• ISBN13: 9780195117226
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"