المؤلفون: Warner, Marina, 1946-

مصطلحات موضوعية: Christian women saints -- France -- Biography., Women heroes -- France -- Influence.

Subject Person: Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 -- Influence.

الوصف: Joan has a unique role in Western imagination-she is one of the few true female heroes. Marina Warner uses her superb historical and literary skills to move beyond conventional biography and to capture the essence of Joan of Arc, both as she lived in her own time and as she has "grown" in the human imagination over the five centuries since her death. She has examined the court documents from Joan of Arc's 1431 Inquisition trial for heresy and woven the facts together with an analysis of the histories, biographies, plays, and paintings and sculptures that have appeared over time to honor this heroine and symbol of France's nationhood. Warner shows how the few facts that are known about the woman Joan have been shaped to suit the aims of those who have chosen her as their hero. The book places Joan in the context of the mythology of the female hero and takes note of her historical antecedents, both pagan and Christian and the role she has played up to the present as the embodiment of an ideal, whether as Amazon, saint, child of nature, or personification of virtue.

المساهمون: Brock, Sebastian P., Harvey, Susan Ashbrook.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Christian saints -- Middle East -- Biography -- Early works to 1800., Women in Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Early works to 1800., Syriac Christians -- Middle East -- Biography -- Early works to 1800., Middle East Christian church Women saints, 400-700 - Biographies

المؤلفون: Slade, Carole.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Christian women saints -- Biography -- History and criticism., Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Subject Person: Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582. Libro de la vida.

الوصف: With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle, and other works? What does the self-portrait of this sixteenth-century nun, mystic, and founder of convents reveal about its author, the church, state, and role of women?St. Teresa of Avila, an innovative analysis of Teresa's autobiographical writings, explores these and many other questions. Bringing to bear a knowledge of Inquisition studies, theory of autobiography, scriptural hermeneutics, and hagiography, Carole Slade defines Teresa's writings as a project of self-interpretation undertaken mainly as the result of the perceived, later realized, threat of an accusation of heresy. Being female and of paternal Jewish ancestry, Teresa was vulnerable to such a charge. Teresa's writing project presented her with serious difficulties. Judicial confession, her prescribed genre, presumed the writer's guilt, while the subordinate female script precluded a defense against the suspicion that her mystical experiences came from the devil. Through careful textual analysis, Slade demonstrates that Teresa exploited the nuances of numerous genres - hagiography, New World chronicle, mystical theological treatise, and early novel - to create an innocent textual persona and depict herself in heroic terms. A signal contribution to our understanding of Teresa's rhetorical and literary talent and life circumstances, this book will engage readers across a broad range of disciplines. Publisher's description.

الوصف: Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger were major figures in early Christian history, using their wealth, status, and forceful personalities to shape the development of nearly every aspect of the religion we now know as Christianity. This volume examines their influence on late antique Christianity and provides an insightful portrait of their legacies in the modern world. Departing from the traditionally patriarchal view, Melania gives a poignant and sometimes surprising account of how the rise of Christian institutions in the Roman Empire shaped our understanding of women's roles in the larger world.

المؤلفون: Catherine Michael Chin, Caroline T. Schroeder

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Christian women saints, Women in Christianity--History

تصنيفات: HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Ancient

المؤلفون: Chin, Catherine M., Schroeder, Caroline T.

Original Material: Edition: 1
344 p.

الإتاحة: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ggjhp4