The Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography - 9780415182102

Taylor & Francis

In this interdisciplinary and boundary breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the depiction of female saints in a wide range of medieval texts. > In this interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the portrayals of women saints in a wide range of medieval texts. She deploys the French feminist critical theory of Cixous and Iriguray to illuminate these depictions of women by men and to further our understanding of both the lives and deeds of female saints and the contemporary, and almost always male, attitudes to them. > Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; Part 1 PART I; Section 01 1 Narration and narratorial control: the masculine voice; Section 01-01-01 Mirk\u2019s Festial; Section 01-01-02 The Life of St Katherine of Alexandria; Section 01-01-03 Early South-English Legendary; Section 01-01-04 Legendys of Hooly Wummen; Section 01-01-05 The Golden Legend; Section 01-01-06 The Canterbury Tales; Section 01-01-07 Saint Cecilia: a fissured t;