Marie of Oignies, of Nivelles, or of Villers: The Multiple Textual Identities of a 13th-Century Holy Woman

Nancy Bradley Warren (2005: 133) maintains that ‘female spirituality and the revelations of holy women were valuable, and extremely valuable, sources of symbolic capital’ in the pre-modern era. In this article, I dissect the ways in which various authors harnessed the ‘symbolic capital’ of the 13th-...

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Main Author: Alicia Spencer-Hall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2017-05-01
Series:Open Library of Humanities
Online Access:https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4440/