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Sacred Sisters
Gender, Sanctity, and Power in Medieval Ireland
Av Maeve Callan
Häftad, 2025
708 kr
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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 development. Women …
Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages
Av Stephanie Grace-Petinos, Leah Parker m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
708 kr
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This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holiness are excavated. Analyses span the sixth to the fifteenth century, with discussion of holy men …
King Alfred the Great, his Hagiographers and his Cult
A Childhood Remembered
Häftad, 2025
814 kr
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This book situates Alfred the Great in his hagiographic context. For 150 years, the fables told in the ninth century about Alfred’s childhood have posed interlocking disciplinary challenges to historians committed to evicting romance from history. Blending current Hagiography Studies with …
St. Elisabeth of Thuringia
A Psychological Study (1931)
Häftad, 2026
708 kr
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Only twelve years after German women had been granted voting rights, the German medievalist Elisabeth Busse-Wilson, a first-wave feminist activist and scholar, challenged centuries of silence about violence against women by taking on the case of the most famous European saint, the young Elisabeth …
Rewriting History and the Myth of the French Nation
The Hagiography of Radegund of Poitiers from Medieval to Modernity
Inbunden, 2025
2139 kr
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This multidisciplinary analysis of the cult of Radegund of Poitiers, from the sixth century to the twenty-first, illuminates the roles saints play at the intersection of gender and politics. No other medieval saint was so politically charged or had such an astonishing range of constructed personae. …
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
Av Alicia Spencer-Hall, Blake Gutt m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
679 kr
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This book presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography.
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
Av Alicia Spencer-Hall, Blake Gutt
Inbunden, 2021
2139 kr
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This book presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography.
Cistercian Cult of Saints as a Treasury of the Living Past in the Later Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2026
2519 kr
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This book explains how the late medieval Cistercian Order and its communities in Central Europe engaged with, adopted, and supported a broad range of saints’ cults as an element of their relationship with the outside world, within their network and as an important element of their identity. …
Sacred Sisters
Gender, Sanctity, and Power in Medieval Ireland
Av Maeve Callan
Inbunden, 2019
2203 kr
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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 development. Women …
Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages
Av Stephanie Grace-Petinos, Leah Parker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2203 kr
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This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holiness are excavated. Analyses span the tenth to the fourteenth century, with discussion of holy men …
St. Elisabeth of Thuringia
A Psychological Study (1931)
Inbunden, 2024
2203 kr
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Published to coincide with the 700-year anniversary of her death, Busse-Wilson's study caused a storm of controversy. Translated for the first time into English, this book reintroduces to a contemporary audience this long-forgotten but still provocative and timely classic.
King Alfred the Great, his Hagiographers and his Cult
A Childhood Remembered
Inbunden, 2023
2270 kr
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This book situates Alfred the Great in his hagiographic context. The book focusses on the typological functions of three Alfredian fables , and show that synoptically they can help us see how Alfred shaped the curve of his own life's destiny and how he engaged in the formation of his own cult to …
