Women on top in medieval exegesis --;Subversive feminine voices : the reception of 1 Timothy 2 from Jerome to Chaucer --;Gender trouble in Augustine's Confessions --;Affective exegesis in the Fleury Slaughter of Iinnocents --;The Wife of Bath's marginal authority.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Christian literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism.
Women -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.