Overview
The tales of the virgin martyrs inevitably emphasize the torture and mutilation of beautiful young women. To the modern reader, these popular texts seem like exercises in sadism, but while they could be made to function as vehicles for active misogyny, they also provided Medieval women such as Hildegard of Bingen and Joan of Arc with role models who helped them to shape their own extraordinary destinies. This book explores the ability of the virgin body to generate contradictory meanings, both repressive and liberating, depending on who told the tale and how it was told.The book, Eloquent Virgins: The Rhetoric of Virginity from Thecla to Joan of Arc (The New Middle Ages) [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780312223502 in Hardcover by M. McInerney may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
10/24/2003
ISBN-13:
9780312223502
Pages:
250
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan US
