Gendered Voices : : Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters / / Catherine M. Mooney.

"These studies . . . not only illuminate the past with a fierce and probing light but also raise, with nuance and power, fundamental issues of interpretation and method."-from the Foreword, by Caroline Walker BynumFemale saints, mystics, and visionaries have been much studied in recent yea...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1999
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Abbreviations
  • I. Voice, Gender, and the Portrayal of Sanctity
  • 2. Hildegard and Her Hagiographers
  • 3. Holy Woman or Unworthy Vessel?
  • 4. Imitatio Christi or Imitatio Mariae?
  • 5. Inside Out
  • 6. A Marriage and Its Observer
  • 7. Henry Suso and Elsbeth Stagel
  • 8. Mystical Death, Bodily Death
  • 9. Authorizing A Life
  • Notes
  • The Saints and Their Interpreters
  • Contributors
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • General Index
  • Acknowledgments