Gender and Holiness: Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe by Sam Riches, Sarah Salih

Gender and Holiness: Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe

Sam Riches, Sarah Salih

216 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 b...

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