Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc by Maud Burnett McInerney

Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc

The New Middle Ages

Maud Burnett McInerney

272 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

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The tales of the virgin martyrs typically emphasize the torture and mutilation of beautiful young women. To the modern reader, these medieval texts seem like exercises in sadism, but they also provided Medieval women such as Hildegard of Bingen an...

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