RT Book
T1 Women from the Golden legend: female authority in a medieval Castilian sanctoral
A1 Gatland, Emma
LA English
LA Spanish
PP Suffolk
PB Boydell & Brewer
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883302179
AB Hagiography was one of the most prolific narrative genres in the Middle Ages. Jacobus de Voragine's 'Golden Legend' (c. 1260), the most popular compendium, was translated into every language in Western Europe. In the medieval Iberian peninsula, the number of conserved hagiographic documents dwarfs those belonging to other narrative genres. This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sanctorals, and the twenty-five female saints witnessed therein. Their lives furnished exemplary models for women inside and outside the Church, and tell stories of maidens tortured by pagan sovereigns, prostitutes, mothers who see their sons martyred, and women who dress as men in order to avoid being married off to the nearest suitor. This study challenges an understanding of these women as passive recipients of social and spiritual influence by re-situating female authority within the context of vision, language, and performativity. Included in the study are transcriptions of twenty-two previously unedited lives. Emma Gatland is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge.
AB Vision -- Language -- Performativity -- Conclusion: the sacred and the social
OP 257
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
CN BX4656
SN 978-1-84615-998-5
K1 Jacobus : de Voragine : approximately 1229-1298 : Legenda aurea
K1 Women saints : Biography
K1 Christian hagiography
K1 Spanish Literature : To 1500 : History and criticism
K1 Jacobus ; de Voragine ; approximately 1229-1298 ; Legenda aurea
K1 Women saints ; Biography
K1 Spanish literature ; To 1500 ; History and criticism
K1 Jacobus,--de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298 : Golden legend
K1 Christian women saints : Biography : Early works to 1800
K1 Christian hagiography : Early works to 1800
K1 Christian saints : Biography : Early works to 1800