Description: In this interdisciplinary and boundary breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the depiction of female saints in a wide range of medieval texts.
Review Quotes: "Ashton has endeavored to let women's own voices be heard in the fissures of medieval hagiographical texts." Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies. October 2002 ."
." . .encourages a healthy suspicion both of the contents and intentions of medieval female saints' and of those who attempt to deconstruct them."
-"The Medieval Review