Gender and Sanctity in the Middle Ages

This review essay examines recent trends and developments in the study of medieval sanctity and gender, looking at the range of approaches which have been and are being taken by both historians and literary scholars to a wide variety of hagiographic texts. Two recent studies of medieval hagiography are reviewed, John Kitchen, Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography and the collection Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters edited by Catherine Mooney. These works are representative of differing approaches to the issue of male authors' representations of female sanctity and concomitant issues of gender ideology.     

试论中世纪中后期的法兰西王统理论

就政体而言,在封建时代,除极少数国家采用共和政体而外（此类国家多为规模狭小的城市国家）,世界上绝大多数国家均以王（皇）位世袭的君主制作为其政体形式。为了使自己的政治统治能够长治久安,封建王朝总是千方百计地要为君主本人及其王朝血统制造舆论,从而使之蒙上...