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Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender. Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography
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Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography. By John Kitchen (New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. xv, 255.$49.95.)
Modern scholarship has usually classified Gregory of Tours as an influential historian of the early Franks and Fortunatus as a poet noted for the fluency of his versification. Yet both were also distinguished authors of saints' Lives. John Kitchen's study is an important contribution to the ongoing revival of their reputations as hagiographers. In particular, Kitchen examines current debates over the existence of a distinctive ...
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