Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2174
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Müller , Matthias
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  • Title: Saint, Witch, Man, Maid, or Whore?: Joan of Arc and Writing History [The author analyses English historians' accounts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries about Joan of Arc's virginity. Bernau argues that their preoccupation signals larger concerns, not just about religious and political debates, but about the rhetoric of truth and representation in history. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Medieval Virginities.  Edited by Anke Bernau, Ruth Evans, and Sarah Salih.  Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages series. University of Wales Press; University of Toronto Press, 2003.  Pages 214 - 233.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Body Gender Historiography Joan of Arc, Saint Nationalism Politics Rhetoric Virginity Women in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles;France
  • Century: 15- 16
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  • Author's Affiliation: Casper-David-Friedrich-Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
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  • Year of Publication: 2003.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0802089607