Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis [electronic resource] /
Tinkle, T.author.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-186) and index.
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.
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.
Bible
European literature.
Literature, Medieval.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Classical literature.
Religion—History.
Bible—Theology.
European Literature.
Medieval Literature.
History of Medieval Europe.
Classical and Antique Literature.
History of Religion.
Biblical Studies.