女性执政困境：玛丽一世女性王权合法性的确立

玛丽一世作为英国历史上第一任女王,自继位伊始,其统治的合法性就充满了争议。亨利八世的婚姻案,使玛丽失去了继承王位的合法身份,爱德华六世临终遗嘱指定简·格雷作为继承人。尽管玛丽通过议会的支持处决了简并成为女王,但同西班牙的菲利普的婚姻加剧了民众对其统治合法性的质疑。中世纪晚期以来的政治理论和思想,也对女性统治充满了偏见。玛丽一世通过逐一回应对于其王权合法性的质疑,逐步确立了女性王权的合法地位。女性王权的合法确立,为后来伊丽莎白一世的继位奠定了基础,加速了民众对于女性君主王权的认同。     

A Byzantine hagiographical parody: Life of Mary the Younger

Abstract

In this paper, it is argued that The Life of Mary the Younger, an anonymous Byzantine text of the eleventh century, has a conscious intertextual dialogue with the oldest Byzantine Life venerating a holy woman, the Life of Macrina written by her brother, Gregory of Nyssa, between 380 and 383. The intertextual relation between these two female Lives takes the form of parody. Following Linda Hutcheon's theory of parody, this article shows how the anonymous hagiographer of Mary reworks Gregory's authoritative text to create a new work, a parody in terms of postmodern literary criticism, whose aim was to criticise old and contemporary customs, conventions and ideologies. In other words, the present article approaches and decodes the literariness, the function and ideology of Mary's Life in the light of Macrina's Life.