Description - Gender and Holiness by Sam Riches
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 be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may also cut across gender divisions and demand a break from normally gendered behaviour. This work of interdisciplinary cultural history includes contributions from historians, art historians and literary critics. A wide range of topics are covered, including: the cults of various saints and aspiring saints, such as Sts. Margaret, George and Francis Richard II's quasi-virginal kingship sexualised tortures of female martyrs homoerotic responses to the body of Christ. This collection will be of interest not only to medievalists, but also to students of religion and gender in any period.
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