Medieval Saints' Lives
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- Publisher:
- Boydell & Brewer
- Publication date:
- 05 February 2013
- 20 November 2008
- ISBN:
- 9781846156601
- 9781843841807
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- 00kg,
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- Subjects:
- Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies
- Series:
- Gallica
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- Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies
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Book description
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 Associate Professor of French at the University of Warwick.
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