Trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography

Trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography / edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt.

"Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory - yet, too often, questions of gender a...

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Other Authors: Spencer-Hall, Alicia (Editor), Gutt, Blake (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
To 1500
Christian saints in literature.
Christian hagiography > History > To 1500.
Christian saints > Europe > To 1500.
Sexual orientation > Europe > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Gender nonconformity > Europe > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Gender identity > Europe > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Electronic books.
e-books.
Early history: c. 500 to c. 1450/1500.
Religious issues and debates.
Gender studies, gender groups.
HISTORY / Medieval.
Electronic books
Christian hagiography
Christian saints
Christian saints in literature
Gender identity > Religious aspects > Christianity
Gender nonconformity > Religious aspects > Christianity
Sexual orientation > Religious aspects > Christianity
LGBTQ+ people.
Transgender people.
Transgender Roman Catholics.
Transgenderqueer identity.
Europe
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt
  • Following the traces : reassessing the status quo, reinscribing trans and genderqueer realities. 1. Assigned female at death : Joseph of Schönau and the disruption of medieval gender binaries / Martha G. Newman
  • 2. Inherited futures and queer privilege : Capgrave's Life of St Katherine / Caitlyn McLoughlin
  • 3. Juana de la Cruz : gender-transcendent prophetess / Kevin C.A. Elphick
  • 4. Non-standard masculinity and sainthood in Niketas David's Life of Patriarch Ignatios / Felix Szabo
  • Peripheral vision(s) : objects, images, and identities. 5. Gender-querying Christ's wounds : a non-binary interpretation of Christ's body in Late Medieval imagery / Sophie Sexon
  • 6. Illuminating queer gender identity in the manuscripts of the Vie de sainte Eufrosine / Vanessa Wright
  • 7. The queerly departed : narratives of veneration in the burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia / Lee Colwill
  • Genre, gender, and trans textualities. 8. St Eufrosine's invitation to Gender Transgression / Amy V. Ogden
  • 9. Holy queer and holy cure : sanctity, disability, and transgender embodiment in Tristan de Nanteuil / Blake Gutt
  • 10. The authentic lives of transgender saints : imago Dei and imitatio Christi in the Life of Saint Marinos the Monk / M.W. Bychowski
  • Epilogue. Beyond binaries : a reflection on the (trans) gender(s) of saints / Mathilde van Dijk
  • Appendix. Trans and genderqueer studies terminology, language, and usage guide.

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