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The generation of identity in late medieval hagiography [electronic resource]

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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.

Title The generation of identity in late medieval hagiography [electronic resource] : speaking the saint / Gail Ashton.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 2000
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-171) and index.
English
Content 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
PART II
2 A concept of space and a notion of identity
Psychological space
Physical space
St Katherine
Maternity, paternity, and kinship
3 Articulating an identity: speech, silence, and self-disclosure
Speech and silence
Patient control: a mimesisSt Katherine
Other voices: tears, melody, and angels
4 Written on the body
Imitatio Christi: the site of the abject
Torture and violence: the rhythm of blood
Conclusion: song of the saint
Bibliography
Index
Series Routledge research in medieval studies
1
Extent 1 online resource (187 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010702213705171
MARC RECORDS
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