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Medieval Saints' Lives

The Gift, Kinship and Community in Old French Hagiography

by Emma Campbell

  • Hardback
  • 292 pages
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • 23.7 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm

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Contending that the study of hagiography is significant both for a consideration of medieval literature and for current theoretical debates in medieval studies, this book considers a range of Old French and Anglo-Norman texts, using modern theories of kinship and community to show how saints' lives construe social and sexual relations. Focusing on the depiction of the gift, kinship and community, the book maintains that social and sexual systems play a key role in vernacular hagiography.Such systems, along with the desires they produce and control, are, it is argued, central to hagiography's religious functions, particularly its role as a vehicle of community formation. In attempting to think beyond the limits of human relationships, saints' lives nonetheless create an environment in which queer desires and modes of connection become possible, suggesting that, in this case at least, the orthodox nurtures the queer. This book thus suggests not only that medieval hagiography is worthy of greater attention but also that this corpus might provide an important resource for theorizing community in its medieval contexts and for thinking it in the present.Emma Campbell is an RCUK Fellow in medieval French literature at the University of Warwick.

  • Author

    Emma Campbell

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Boydell & Brewer Ltd

  • Published

    November 2008

  • Weight

    613g

  • Page Count

    292

  • Dimensions

    23.7 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781843841807

  • ISBN-10

    1843841800

  • Eden Code

    1201215

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