Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography.

Church History | December 1, 1999| | Copyright

Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography. By John Kitchen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xvi + 256 pp. $49.95 cloth.

The past few years have seen the proliferation of innovative works on gender and the female body in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, including important books by Lisa Bitel, Lynda Coon, Kate Cooper, and Aline Rousselle. Merovingian hagiography has long been ripe for a full-length study in this rapidly developing field due to the possibilities offered by the unusually high visibility of ...

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