Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Fri fragt over 499,-
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
Middle English Legends of Women Saints
Engelsk
Bogcover for Middle English Legends of Women Saints af , 9781580440462
Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
322
ISBN-13:
9781580440462
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1580440460
Udg. Dato:
1 mar 2003
Størrelse i cm:
17,8 x 25,7 x 2,1
Oplagsdato:
1 mar 2003

Middle English Legends of Women Saints

Engelsk
Paperback 2003
Format:

Bog beskrivelse

This collection of Middle English hagiographies presents readers with women saints’ lives in multiple retellings from the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Frideswide of Oxford was the Anglo-Saxon abbess of a well-endowed monastery who is presented as a victim of male persecution. Mary Magdalen’s story touches upon feminine authority while also offering three paradigms of sanctity—the repentant sinner, apostle, and contemplative—which could be emulated by both men and women. The virgin martyr legends of Margaret of Antioch, Christina of Tyre, and Katherine of Alexandria present these women as challengers to political tyrants. Finally, Anne’s vita popularized a new type of sanctity of holy motherhood that was not miraculously virginal but biologically and maritally typical. Sherry Reames introduces readers to relatively obscure female-centered hagiographies, the majority of which have never before been published or have not been edited since the nineteenth century.

... Vis mere

Hos Booktok
316 kr
Læg i kurv nu
Sikker betaling
23 - 25 hverdage

Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
322
ISBN-13:
9781580440462
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1580440460
Udg. Dato:
1 mar 2003
Størrelse i cm:
17,8 x 25,7 x 2,1
Oplagsdato:
1 mar 2003
Finder produkter...
Kategori sammenhænge