Format: Hardback
Pages: 292
ISBN: 9781843841807
Pub Date: November 2008
Imprint: Boydell & Brewer
Price:
£80.00
In stock
Description:
Focusing on the depiction of the gift, kinship and community, the book maintains that social and sexual systems play a key role in vernacular hagiography. Such systems, along with the desires they produce and control, are, it is argued, central to hagiography's religious functions, particularly its role as a vehicle of community formation.
