Transgender Saints and Transcending Gender

The stories of saints in this episode are from research I did a few years ago. I'm super excited to share them! I read the translations of the medieval text, the Aelfric Lives of Saints.

Bibliography

Aelfric. Aelfric’s Lives of Saints: Being A Set of Sermons on Saints’ Days Formerly Observed by the English Church. 2 vols. Edited by Walter W. Skeat. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Anson, John. “The Female Transvestite in Early Monasticism: The Origin and Development of a Motif.” In Viator, 5 (1974): 1-32.

Aspegren, Kerstin. The Male Woman: A Feminine Ideal in the Early Church. Edited by Rene Kieffer. Stockholm. Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell International,1990.

Bennett Judith M., Ruth Mazo Karras, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Burrus, Virginia. The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Coon, Lynda L. Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Davis, Stephen J. “Crossed Texts, Crossed Sex: Intertexuality and Gender in Early Christian Legends of Holy Women Disguised as Men.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 10, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 1-36.

Kitchen, John. Saints’ Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography. New York, New York. Oxford University Press, 1998.

Lees, Clare A., ed. The Cambridge History of: Early Medieval English Literature. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

McNamara, JoAnn, John E. Halborg, and E. Gordon Whatley, ed. Sainted Women of the Dark Ages. Durham, England: Duke University Press, 1992.

Noble, Thomas F. X. and Thomas Head. Ed. Soldiers of Christ: Satins and Saints’ Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.

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