6. Martyrdom and the Female Voice: Saint Christine in the Cité des dames

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors' Note vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. HAGIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
6. 1. Lay People's Sanctity in Western Europe: Evolution of a Pattern (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries) 21
7. 2. Sanctity and Experience in Pictorial Hagiography: Two Illustrated Lives of Saints from Romanesque France 33
8. 3. Spiritual Sanctions in Wales 67
9. 4. National Characteristics in the Portrayal of English Saints in the South English Legendary 81
10. PART II. THE LANGUAGE OF RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE
11. 5. From the Oral to the Written in Medieval and Renaissance Saints' Lives 97
12. 6. Martyrdom and the Female Voice: Saint Christine in the Cité des dames 115
13. 7. Saints, Nuns, and Speech in the Canterbury Tales 136
14. 8. Speaking without Tongues: The Martyr Romanus and Augustine's Theory of Language in Illustrations of Bern Burgerbibliothek Codex 264 161
15. 9. Non Alia Sed Aliter: The Hermeneutics of Gender in Bernard of Clairvaux 181
16. PART III. SAINTLINESS AND GENDER
17. 10. The Need to Give: Suffering and Female Sanctity in the Middle Ages 199
18. 11. Friars as Confidants of Holy Women in Medieval Dominican Hagiography 222
19. 12. Women Saints, the Vernacular, and History in Early Medieval France 247
20. 13. The Corporeality of Female Sanctity in The Life of Saint Margaret 268
21. 14. Holiness and the Culture of Devotion: Remarks on Some Late Medieval Male Saints 288
22. Notes on Contributors and Editors 306
23. Index 309