Medieval lives of female saints have attracted wide attention in recent years. Some scholars have argued that such texts reveal a distinctive form of female san

Medieval lives of female saints have attracted wide attention in recent years. In this revisionist work, John Kitchen looks at several texts-lives of both male

In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric's treatme

Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume re

An examination of how the feminine was viewed in early medieval Ireland, through a careful study of a range of texts.