Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters

Book Overview

"These studies . . . not only illuminate the past with a fierce and probing light but also raise, with nuance and power, fundamental issues of interpretation and method."--from the Foreword, by Caroline Walker Bynum

Female saints, mystics, and visionaries have been much studied in recent years. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to the ways in which their experiences and voices were mediated by the men who often composed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812216873
• ISBN13: 9780812216875
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"