Trans and genderqueer subjects in Medieval hagiography

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 are exp...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Spencer-Hall, Alicia, editor (editor), Gutt, Blake, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2021.
Series:Hagiography beyond tradition
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009719831906719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Following the Traces. Reassessing the Status Quo, Reinscribing Trans and Genderqueer Realities
  • 1 Assigned Female at Death
  • 2 Inherited Futures and Queer Privilege
  • 3 Juana de la Cruz
  • 4 Non-Standard Masculinity and Sainthood in Niketas David’s Life of Patriarch Ignatios
  • Peripheral Vision(s). Objects, Images, and Identities
  • 5 Gender-Querying Christ’s Wounds
  • 6 Illuminating Queer Gender Identity in the Manuscripts of the Vie de sainte Eufrosine
  • 7 The Queerly Departed
  • Genre, Gender, and Trans Textualities
  • 8 St Eufrosine’s Invitation to Gender Transgression
  • 9 Holy Queer and Holy Cure
  • 10 The Authentic Lives of Transgender Saints
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
  • Index