Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender : Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography.
Kitchen examines several texts - lives of both male and female saints, by authors of both sexes - from 6th century France. The result is to cast doubt on the assumption that male authors were ignorant of, or hostile to, specifically female concerns. It also raises methodological problems with the as...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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