Gender and power in medieval exegesis
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Gender and power in medieval exegesis
(The new Middle Ages)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
1st ed
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Bibliography: p. [171]-186
Includes index
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Description
After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible.
Table of Contents
Women on Top in Medieval Exegesis Subversive Feminine Voices: The Reception of 1 Timothy 2 from Jerome to Chaucer Gender Trouble in Augustine's Confessions Affective Exegesis in the Fleury Slaughter of Innocents The Wife of Bath's Marginal Authority Afterword
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