Alicia Spencer–hall, Blake Gutt

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

Herausgeber: Spencer-Hall, Alicia; Gutt, Blake

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography.

Produktdetails

• Hagiography Beyond Tradition
• Verlag: Pallas Publications
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9789048559190
• ISBN-10: 9048559197
• Artikelnr.: 70701267

Autorenporträt

Alicia Spencer-Hall is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London. Their research interests include: medieval hagiography, disability, gender, digital culture, and film and media studies. Her first monograph, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens: Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2018, and is now available Open Access. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, a collection co-edited with Blake Gutt, was published in 2021. Shortlisted for the Transgender Non-Fiction award at the 34th Lambda Literary Awards, the volume is now also available Open Access. Their second monograph, Medieval Twitter, was published by Arc Humanities Press in 2024. Blake Gutt is a postdoctoral scholar with the Michigan Society of Fellows (University of Michigan, USA). He specializes in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century French, Occitan and Catalan literature, and modern queer and trans theory. Alicia Spencer-Hall is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London. Their research interests include: medieval hagiography, disability, gender, digital culture, and film and media studies. Her first monograph, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens: Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2018, and is now available Open Access. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, a collection co-edited with Blake Gutt, was published in 2021. Shortlisted for the Transgender Non-Fiction award at the 34th Lambda Literary Awards, the volume is now also available Open Access. Their second monograph, Medieval Twitter, was published by Arc Humanities Press in 2024.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
'Introduction'
Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt
Following the Traces: Reassessing the Status Quo
Reinscribing Trans and Genderqueer Realities
1.'Assigned Female at Death: Joseph of Schönau and the Disruption of Medieval Gender Binaries'
Martha G. Newman
2.'Inherited Futures: Capgrave's Life of St Katherine'
Caitlyn McLoughlin
3.'Juana de la Cruz: Gender-Transcendent Prophetess'
Kevin C.A. Elphick
4.'Non-Standard Masculinity and Sainthood in Niketas David's Life of Patriarch Ignatios'
Felix Szabo
Peripheral Vision(s): Objects
Images
and Identities
5.'Gender-Querying Christ's Wounds: A Non-Binary Interpretation of Christ's Body in Late Medieval Imagery'
Sophie Sexon
6.'Illuminating Queer Gender Identity in the Manuscripts of the Vie de sainte Eufrosine'
Vanessa Wright
7.'The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia'
Lee Colwill
Genre
Gender
and Trans Textualities
8.'St Eufrosine's Invitation to Gender Transgression'
Amy V. Ogden
9.'Holy Queer and Holy Cure: Sanctity
Disability
and Transgender Embodiment in Tristan de Nanteuil'
Blake Gutt
10.'The Authentic Lives of Transgender Saints: imago Dei and imitatio Christi in the Life of Saint Marinos the Monk'
M.W. Bychowski
Epilogue: 'Beyond Binaries: The (Trans) Gender(s) of Saints'
Mathilde van Dijk
Appendix: 'Trans and Genderqueer Studies Terminology
Language
and Usage Guide'
Index.