Abstract
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500–1500 |
| Editors | Samantha Kahn Herrick |
| Place of Publication | Leiden & Boston |
| Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
| Pages | 397-416 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789004417472 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789004417267 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 19 Dec 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | Reading Medieval Sources |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Brill Publishers |
| Volume | 4 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2589-2509 |
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A King, Not a Servant : the Prose Life of St Katherine of Alexandria and Ideologies of Masculinity in Late Medieval England. / Lewis, Katherine J.
Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500–1500. ed. / Samantha Kahn Herrick. Leiden & Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, 2019. p. 397-416 (Reading Medieval Sources; Vol. 4).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
TY - CHAP
T1 - A King, Not a Servant
T2 - the Prose Life of St Katherine of Alexandria and Ideologies of Masculinity in Late Medieval England
AU - Lewis, Katherine J.
PY - 2019/12/19
Y1 - 2019/12/19
N2 - St Katherine of Alexandria was the most popular female saint in late-medieval England. Studies to date have often focused on her relevance to women and considered what her life and cult tells us about ideologies of femininity. However, St Katherine was also a very popular saint with male devotees, and in some instances copies of her life are known to have been owned by individual men. Therefore this essay uses the popular fifteenth-century prose life of St Katherine to explore the contribution that interactions between piety and masculinity made to the social self-fashioning of affluent urban lay men. Drawing on ideologies of ideal kingship and their predication on masculine norms, it argues that the relevance of St Katherine to this type of man derives from her status as an exemplary ruler, especially the account of her household management.
AB - St Katherine of Alexandria was the most popular female saint in late-medieval England. Studies to date have often focused on her relevance to women and considered what her life and cult tells us about ideologies of femininity. However, St Katherine was also a very popular saint with male devotees, and in some instances copies of her life are known to have been owned by individual men. Therefore this essay uses the popular fifteenth-century prose life of St Katherine to explore the contribution that interactions between piety and masculinity made to the social self-fashioning of affluent urban lay men. Drawing on ideologies of ideal kingship and their predication on masculine norms, it argues that the relevance of St Katherine to this type of man derives from her status as an exemplary ruler, especially the account of her household management.
KW - Hagiography
KW - Gender
KW - Masculinity
KW - Saints' cults
U2 - 10.1163/9789004417472_021
DO - 10.1163/9789004417472_021
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789004417267
T3 - Reading Medieval Sources
SP - 397
EP - 416
BT - Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500–1500
A2 - Kahn Herrick, Samantha
PB - Brill Academic Publishers
CY - Leiden & Boston
ER -