Sacred Sisters : : Gender, Sanctity, and Power in Medieval Ireland / / Maeve Callan.

*Sacred Sisters* focuses on five saints: the four female Irish saints who have extant medieval biographies (Darerca, Brigid, Íte, and Samthann), and Patrick, whose writings -- fifth-century Ireland's sole surviving texts -- attest to the centrality of women in Irish Christianity's developm...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Hagiography Beyond Tradition ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.) :; 19
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