The first modern translation of one of the most influential books to come from the Middle ages.
Series editor JANE CHANCE.
Larissa Tracy is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University and George Mason University.
Their Lives reach through the ages to speak to a modern audience, forcing a re-examination of women\'s roles in the medieval period.
This book divides the Lives of female Saints into: the ryght hooly virgins, who vocally defend their bodies against Roman persecution; holy mothers, who give up their traditional role to pursue a life of contemplation; the repentant sinners, who convert and voice their defiance against a society thatdemanded silence in women; and the holy transvestites, who cast off their gender identity to find absolution and salvation.
The Gilte Legende was widely read as a model for everyday life, including the education of Women through examples set by early Christian martyrs.
The first modern translation of one of the most influential books to come from the Middle ages
