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  • Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
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  • Alicia Spencer-Hall
  • 2021
  • Published by: Amsterdam University Press
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Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory – yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of hagiography as a genre integrally resistant to limiting binaristic categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection showcases scholarship by emerging trans and genderqueer authors, as well as the work of established researchers. Working at the vanguard of historical trans studies, these scholars demonstrate the vital and vitally political nature of their work as medievalists. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography enables the re-creation of a lineage linking modern trans and genderqueer individuals to their medieval ancestors, providing models of queer identity where much scholarship has insisted there were none, and re-establishing the place of non-normative gender in history.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half-Title Page, Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. 1-4
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  1. Table of Contents
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  1. Acknowledgements
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  1. Introduction
  2. Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt
  3. pp. 11-40
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  1. Following the Traces
  1. 1. Assigned Female at Death
  2. Martha G. Newman
  3. pp. 41-64
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  1. 2. Inherited Futures and Queer Privilege
  2. Caitlyn McLoughlin
  3. pp. 65-86
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  1. 3. Juana de la Cruz
  2. Kevin C.A. Elphick
  3. pp. 87-108
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  1. 4. Non-Standard Masculinity and Sainthood in Niketas David's Life of Patriarch Ignatios
  2. Felix Szabo
  3. pp. 109-130
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  1. Peripheral Vision(s)
  1. 5. Gender-Querying Christ's Wounds
  2. Sophie Sexon
  3. pp. 131-154
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  1. 6. Illuminating Queer Gender Identity in the Manuscripts of the Vie de sainte Eufrosine
  2. Vanessa Wright
  3. pp. 155-176
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  1. 7. The Queerly Departed
  2. Lee Colwill
  3. pp. 177-198
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  1. Genre, Gender, and Trans Textualities
  1. 8. St Eufrosine's Invitation to Gender Transgression
  2. Amy V. Ogden
  3. pp. 199-222
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  1. 9. Holy Queer and Holy Cure
  2. Blake Gutt
  3. pp. 223-244
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  1. 10. The Authentic Lives of Transgender Saints
  2. M.W. Bychowski
  3. pp. 245-266
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  1. Epilogue
  2. Mathilde van Dijk
  3. pp. 267-280
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  1. Appendix
  2. pp. 281-330
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  1. Index
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