Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 “Seo Wæs Ærest Synnecge”: The Holy Harlot’s Transformations in Old English Hagiography
- 2 The Post-Conquest Harlot: Affective Piety and the Romance Genre
- 3 Heterodoxy, Patronage, and the Harlot in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Hagiography
- 4 “She Shal Byn Abyll to Dystroye Helle”: Gender and Authority in the Digby Mary Magdalene
- 5 Admiranda et Imitanda? Emulation of the Holy Harlot Type by Late Medieval Female Mystics
- Conclusion: Holy or Harlot? The Early Modern Demise of the Saintly Prostitute
- Appendix: Vernacular Lives of Holy Harlots in Medieval Insular Hagiography
- Bibliography
- Index
- Gender in the Middle Ages
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 “Seo Wæs Ærest Synnecge”: The Holy Harlot’s Transformations in Old English Hagiography
- 2 The Post-Conquest Harlot: Affective Piety and the Romance Genre
- 3 Heterodoxy, Patronage, and the Harlot in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Hagiography
- 4 “She Shal Byn Abyll to Dystroye Helle”: Gender and Authority in the Digby Mary Magdalene
- 5 Admiranda et Imitanda? Emulation of the Holy Harlot Type by Late Medieval Female Mystics
- Conclusion: Holy or Harlot? The Early Modern Demise of the Saintly Prostitute
- Appendix: Vernacular Lives of Holy Harlots in Medieval Insular Hagiography
- Bibliography
- Index
- Gender in the Middle Ages
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious LiteratureAuthority, Exemplarity and Femininity, pp. ix - xPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021