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1 lut 2008 · For these saints' lives construct a feminine audience, very often addressed explicitly as such, and proceed with the expectation that women will model their own behavior and practices on those of female saints.
A reconsideration of exemplarity as a historical, rather than a regulatory, hermeneutics helps to reopen important questions about the status of female saints’ lives for women readers and for the place of gender in vernacular literary culture.
Influential Catholic women have included theologians, abbesses, monarchs, missionaries, mystics, martyrs, scientists, nurses, hospital administrators, educationalists, religious sisters, Doctors of the Church, and canonised saints. Women constitute the majority of members of consecrated life in the Catholic Church: in 2010, there were around ...
But women saints in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Italy did not begin that way. Most of their biogra-phies suggest that their path to visionary selfhood began with their total internalization of the cultural stereotype of the good woman; they accepted the limitations on female behavior and even embraced
23 mar 2021 · This paper proposes an exploration of the medieval aspects of the early modern period with a particular focus on the lives of medieval female saints and the relevance of the accounts of their martyrdoms to early Shakespearean tragedy.
the only three women saints who are foci of broad-based Jewish cults in Israel today are named Rachel: ' the Biblical Matriarch Rachel, Rachel the Wife of the Talmudic Rabbi Akiva, and Rachel the modern Israeli poet.
Women Saints, the Vernacular, and History in Early Medieval France. In T. Szell (Ed.), Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe (pp. 247-267). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
