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Gendered Voices

Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters

by Catherine M. Mooney, Caroline Walker Bynum

  • Paperback
  • 288 pages
  • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
  • 15 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

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"These studies ...not only illuminate the past with a fierce and probing light but also raise, with nuance and power, fundamental issues of interpretation and method." - from the Foreword by Caroline Walker Bynum. Female saints, mystics, and visionaries have been much studied in recent years. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to the ways in which their experiences and voices were mediated by the men who often composed their vitae, served as their editors and scribes, or otherwise encouraged, protected, and collaborated with the women in their writing projects.What strategies can be employed to discern and distinguish the voices of these high and late medieval women from those of their scribes and confessors? In those rare cases where we have both the women's own writings and writings about them by their male contemporaries, how do the women's self-portrayals diverge from the male portrayals of them? Finally, to what extent are these portrayals of sanctity by the saints and their contemporaries influenced not so much by gender as by genre?Catherine Mooney brings together a distinguished group of contributors who explore these and other issues as they relate to seven holy women and their male interpreters and one male saint who claims to incorporate the words of a female follower in an account of his own life.
Gendered Voices and Christian Materiality
Christian MaterialityGendered Voices

  • Authors

    Catherine M. Mooney +1

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    University of Pennsylvania Press

  • Published

    June 1999

  • Weight

    409g

  • Page Count

    288

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780812216875

  • ISBN-10

    0812216873

  • Eden Code

    1160918

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