CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Znorovszky, Andrea Bianka |
|---|---|
| Title | Between Mary and Christ: Depicting Cross-Dressed Saints in the Middle Ages (c. 1200-1600) |
| Summary | Between Mary and Christ: Depicting Cross-Dressed Saint in the Middle Ages (c. 1200-1600) deals with a comparative approach on the visual and textual sources of the group of holy virgins in disguise, namely, Saints Eugenia, Euphrosyne, Margareta Pelagius, and Marina the Monk. Briefly, their lives, in a nutshell, concentrate on stories of women who wore men’s clothes, fled the world to follow Christ, and joined in monasteries or, sometimes, retired in solitary places. This dissertation demonstrates that in visual and textual sources of the Late Middle Ages holy women in disguise are viewed as women in contrast to previous research that emphasized gendered, theological, patristic or intertextual interpretations. Holy women in disguise are constructed as female hagiographic/visual characters due to their lives’ flexibility and to the assimilation of patterns of female sanctity as it follows: patterns of female mystics and mystical lexicon, models of sanctity, Marian influences: apocryphal and iconographic patterns of Virgin Mary, positioning and iconographic attributes, cult, Crusades, and iconographic confusion. |
| Supervisor | Jaritz, Gerhard; Saghy, Marianne |
| Department | Medieval Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/znorovszky_andrea-bianka.pdf |
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