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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Female Saints"”.
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The female saints of Cornwall.
This thesis seeks to identify the female saints of Cornwall and their connections to each other and to the saints of other Celtic regions. The aim of the research was to establish if there were common links and themes between these saints, given that so many of them are found and remembered solely …
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Gendering virginity and violence in Ælfric’s lives of female saints
This thesis examines the construction of the female saint and female sanctity in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints. Special attention is paid to the influence of the early-medieval ecclesiastical and secular contexts which resulted in the widespread glorification of the virginal status and the subsequent …
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Translocating Devotion to Female Saints in England through Liturgical Prescription and Practice, c. 1330–1500
This thesis examines the variety of ways saints became localised through liturgical practices, and the actors involved in these processes, most especially the bishops who promoted their feasts, the monasteries that adopted them, and the laity who participated in their celebration. Historians often …
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The Power of Coptic Women Saints: Historical and Analytical Study of Coptic Women Saints as Spiritual Models for Coptic Women in the USA and Egypt
… addresses the lack of research concerning Coptic female experience and Coptic female saints through the use of in-depth interviews of 21 Egyptian Coptic women living in Southern California and 21 Egyptian Coptic women living in Egypt. The interviews explore women’s relationships with, and …
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"And if Men Might also Imitate her Virtues" An Examination of Goscelin of Saint-Bertin's Hagiographies of the Female Saints of Ely and Their Role in the Creation of Historic Memory
… study the hagiographies written about the royal female saints of Ely by the Flemish monk Goscelin of Saint-Bertin in the late eleventh century as a form of postcolonial literature and memory creation. Goscelin was a renowned writer of Anglo-Saxon saints’ lives. Through his hagiographies he not …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
… century, examines the hagiographies of six saints — St Margaret, St Juliana, St Martin, St George, St Francis of Assisi, and Christina Mirabilis — to argue their hagiographers construct them performing multiple gender states, regardless of their assigned sexes. Additionally, it examines St …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
… century, examines the hagiographies of six saints — St Margaret, St Juliana, St Martin, St George, St Francis of Assisi, and Christina Mirabilis — to argue their hagiographers construct them performing multiple gender states, regardless of their assigned sexes. Additionally, it examines St …
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Wolves in Lamb's Clothing: Redeeming the Images of Catherine of Siena and Angela of Foligno
… what are contemporary women to make of these female saints? This paper will examine Blessed Angela of Foligno (1248 – 1309), a Franciscan tertiary, and Saint Catherine of Siena (1347 – 1380), a Dominican tertiary. They were Catholic holy women from medieval Italy. These two women had mystical …
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'God Does Not Regard Your Forms': Gender and Literary Representation in the Works of Farīd al-Dīn 'Aṭṭār Nīshāpūrī
… positive representations of women, and indeed female saints, alongside brutal anti-woman declarations. This study attempts to nuance these prevailing characterisations of medieval depictions of gender by providing further evidence of Sufi attitudes towards women and femininity. It does so via a …