Eloquent virgins from Thecla to Joan of Arc

The tales of the virgin martyrs inevitably emphasize the torture and mutilation of beautiful young women. To the modern reader, these popular texts seem like exercises in sadism, but while they could be made to function as vehicles for active misogyny, they also provided Medieval women such as Hildegard of Bingen and Joan of Arc with role models who helped them to shape their own extraordinary destinies. This book explores the ability of the virgin body to generate contradictory meanings, both repressive and liberating, depending on who told the tale and how it was told.

著者

McInerney Maud Burnett

出版社

Palgrave Macmillan

発売日

2003年1月発売

価格

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ISBN

9780312223502

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