TY - BOOK ID - 27991555 TI - Gendered voices: medieval saints and their interpreters PY - 1999 SN - 0812234855 0812216873 1512821152 9780812234855 9780812216875 PB - Philadelphia, Pa University of Pennsylvania Press DB - UniCat KW - 235.3 "04/14" KW - Christian hagiography KW - -Church history KW - -Christianity KW - Ecclesiastical history KW - History, Church KW - History, Ecclesiastical KW - History KW - Christianity KW - Hagiography, Christian KW - Hagiography KW - Hagiografie--Middeleeuwen KW - -Historiography KW - -Hagiografie--Middeleeuwen KW - Christian hagiography. KW - Church history KW - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Historiography. KW - Middle Ages, 600-1500&delete& KW - Historiography KW - Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500 - Historiography KW - Christian church history KW - anno 500-1499 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:27991555 AB - "These studies . . . not only illuminate the past with a fierce and probing light but also raise, with nuance and power, fundamental issues of interpretation and method."—from the Foreword, by Caroline Walker BynumFemale saints, mystics, and visionaries have been much studied in recent years. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to the ways in which their experiences and voices were mediated by the men who often composed their vitae, served as their editors and scribes, or otherwise encouraged, protected, and collaborated with the women in their writing projects. What strategies can be employed to discern and distinguish the voices of these high and late medieval women from those of their scribes and confessors? In those rare cases where we have both the women's own writings and writings about them by their male contemporaries, how do the women's self-portrayals diverge from the male portrayals of them? Finally, to what extent are these portrayals of sanctity by the saints and their contemporaries influenced not so much by gender as by genre?Catherine Mooney brings together a distinguished group of contributors who explore these and other issues as they relate to seven holy women and their male interpreters and one male saint who claims to incorporate the words of a female follower in an account of his own life. ER -