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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.
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.
Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques examines the intersection of
religion and monstrosity in a variety of different time periods in
the hopes of addressing two gaps in scholarship within the field of
monster studies. The first part of the volume-running from the
medieval to the Early Modern period-focuses upon the view of the
monster through non-majority voices and accounts from those who
were themselves branded as monsters. Overlapping partially with the
Early Modern and proceeding to the present day, the contributions
of the second part of the volume attempt to problematize the
dichotomy of secular/religious through a close look at the monsters
this period has wrought.
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