Holy harlots in medieval English religious literature : authority, exemplarity and femininity /: authority, exemplarity and femininity. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Juliette Vuille.
• Authors: Vuille, Juliette
• Contents: Introduction; Chapter 1: "Seo wæs ærest synnecge, " The Holy Harlot's Transformations in Old English Hagiography; Chapter 2: The Post-Conquest Harlot: Affective Piety and the Romance Genre; Chapter 3: Heterodoxy, Patronage, and the Harlot in 14th and 15th Century Hagiography; Chapter 4: "She shal byn abyll to dystroye helle": Gender and Authority in the Digby Mary Magdalene/ ; Chapter 5: Admiranda et Imitanda?/ Emulation of the Holy Harlot Type by Late Medieval Female Mystics ; Conclusion: Holy or Harlot? The Early Modern Demise of the Saintly Prostitute ; Appendix: Vernacular Lives of Holy Harlots in Medieval Insular Hagiography ; Bibliography
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Plumbago Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.93820902; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Religion in literature; Women in literature; Saints in literature; Christianity and literature -- History -- To 1500
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800101203
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