Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

This volume 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 explored almost exclusively through a prism of...

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Main Authors Spencer-Hall, Alicia, Gutt, Blake
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2021
Edition1
SeriesHagiography Beyond Tradition
Subjects
Europe
Gender and Sexuality Studies
General history of Europe
Hagiography, gender, religion, transgender, queer theory
High Middle Ages
History
HISTORY / Medieval
History, Art History, and Archaeology
Medieval
Medieval Studies
Religion
Religion and Theology
Sexuality & Gender Studies
Social History
Sociology and Social History
High Middle Ages
Sociology and Social History
CE period up to c 1500
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Religious issues and debates
SOCIAL SCIENCE
LGBT Studies
Medieval Studies
Gender studies, gender groups
Social History
South
Sexuality & Gender Studies
Christianity
History, Art History, and Archaeology
AUP Wetenschappelijk
Religious issues & debates
Early history: c. 500 to c. 1450
Medieval
1500
RELIGION
General
Religion and Theology
Saints & Sainthood
Hagiography, gender, religion, transgender, queer theory
History & Archaeology
HISTORY
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 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 St 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 -- Index -- List of Figures -- Figure 4.1 Mosaic portrait of Ignatios in N. tympanum of the Hagia Sophia -- Figure 5.1 Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg -- Figure 5.2 Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg -- Figure 6.1 -- Figure 6.2 -- Figure 6.3 -- Figure 6.4
  • Figure E.1 The Lamentation of Christ
  • 4 Non-Standard Masculinity and Sainthood in Niketas David's Life of Patriarch Ignatios --
  • List of Figures --
  • 2 Inherited Futures and Queer Privilege --
  • Genre, Gender, and Trans Textualities --
  • Epilogue --
  • 8 St Eufrosine's Invitation to Gender Transgression --
  • 9 Holy Queer and Holy Cure --
  • Index
  • 5 Gender-Querying Christ's Wounds --
  • Peripheral Vision(s). Objects, Images, and Identities --
  • Acknowledgements --
  • 1 Assigned Female at Death --
  • 7 The Queerly Departed --
  • Table of Contents --
  • 6 Illuminating Queer Gender Identity in the Manuscripts of the Vie de sainte Eufrosine --
  • 10 The Authentic Lives of Transgender Saints --
  • Frontmatter --
  • Following the Traces. Reassessing the Status Quo, Reinscribing Trans and Genderqueer Realities --
  • 3 Juana de la Cruz --
  • Introduction --
  • Appendix --