Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography / / ed. by Alicia Spencer-Hall, Blake Gutt.

This volume presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory - yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Hagiography Beyond Tradition ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Following the Traces. Reassessing the Status Quo, Reinscribing Trans and Genderqueer Realities
  • 1 Assigned Female at Death
  • 2 Inherited Futures and Queer Privilege
  • 3 Juana de la Cruz
  • 4 Non-Standard Masculinity and Sainthood in Niketas David’s Life of Patriarch Ignatios
  • Peripheral Vision(s). Objects, Images, and Identities
  • 5 Gender-Querying Christ’s Wounds
  • 6 Illuminating Queer Gender Identity in the Manuscripts of the Vie de sainte Eufrosine
  • 7 The Queerly Departed
  • Genre, Gender, and Trans Textualities
  • 8 St Eufrosine’s Invitation to Gender Transgression
  • 9 Holy Queer and Holy Cure
  • 10 The Authentic Lives of Transgender Saints
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
  • Index