Women from the Golden Legend

Female Authority in a Medieval Castilian Sanctoral
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-85566-229-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 296, 266 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Monografías A

This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sanctorals, and the twenty-five female saints witnessed therein. Included in the study are transcriptions of twenty-two previously unedited lives.

Hagiography was one of the most prolific narrative genres in the Middle Ages. Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend (c. 1260), the most popular compendium, was translated into every language in Western Europe. In the medievalIberian peninsula, the number of conserved hagiographic documents dwarfs those belonging to other narrative genres. This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sanctorals, and the twenty-five female saints witnessed therein. Their lives furnished exemplary models for women inside and outside the Church, and tell stories of maidens tortured by pagan sovereigns, prostitutes, mothers who see their sons martyred, and women who dress as men in orderto avoid being married off to the nearest suitor. This study challenges an understanding of these women as passive recipients of social and spiritual influence by re-situating female authority within the context of vision, language, and performativity. Included in the study are transcriptions of twenty-two previously unedited lives.

Emma Gatland is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gatland, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Portugiesische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Vision
Language
Performativity
Conclusion
Appendix
Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Gatland, Emma
Emma Gatland is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge.