The Female Condition
Gender and Deformity in High‐Medieval Miracle Narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12226102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne E Bailey (0000-0001-7326-7150, Faculty of History University of Oxford Oxford UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 427-447 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0953-5233 • E-ISSN: 1468-0424 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-0424.12519 |
| OpenAlex | W3130640268 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article explores the intersection of medicine, religion and gender within the context of miracle narratives compiled in England and France in the High Middle Ages. Women in miracle accounts have much to tell us about medieval ideas of gendered sickness and health, yet this is an area which has received little scholarly attention. Focusing on stories of female deformity and disfigurement, it is argued that sickness has a feminising effect on women's bodies in these sources, but proposed that symptoms of excess femininity were not always seen as the spiritual hindrance that might be expected
Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Disfigurement · Femininity · Literature · Miracle · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Early Modern Women Writers · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Surgery
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |