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Margaret's Monsters - Women, Identity, and the Life of St. Margaret in Medieval England (Paperback)
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Margaret's Monsters - Women, Identity, and the Life of St. Margaret in Medieval England (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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St. Margaret of Antioch was one of the most popular saints in
medieval England and, throughout the Middle Ages, the various Lives
of St. Margaret functioned as a blueprint for a virginal life and
supernatural assistance to pregnant women during the dangerous
process of labor. In her narrative, Margaret is accosted by various
demons and, having defeated each monster in turn, she is taken to
the place of her martyrdom where she prays for supernatural boons
for her adherents. This book argues that Margaret's monsters are a
key element in understanding Margaret's importance to her
adherents, specifically how the sexual identities of her adherents
were constructed and maintained. More broadly, this study offers
three major contributions to the field of medieval studies: first,
it argues for the utility of a diachronic analysis of Saints' Lives
literature in a field dominated by synchronic analyses; second,
this diachronic analysis is important to interpreting the intertext
of Saints' Lives, not only between different Lives but also
different versions of the same Life; and third, the approach
further suggests that the most valuable socio-cultural information
in hagiographic literature is found in the auxiliary characters and
not in the figure of the saint him/herself.
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