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Gender and Holiness: Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe (Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture) - Hardcover

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9780415258210: Gender and Holiness: Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe (Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture)
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ISBN 10: 0415258219 ISBN 13: 9780415258210
Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may also cut across gender divisions and demand a break from normally gendered behaviour. This work of interdisciplinary cultural history includes contributions from historians, art historians and literary critics and will be of interest not only to medievalists, but also to students of religion and gender in any period.

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Sarah Salih, Sam Riches

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415258219
ISBN 13 
9780415258210
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
216
Editor
S. Riches, Sarah Salih
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