Description:
Includes Old French text and English translation of the life of Saint Eufrosine, who dressed as a man to become a monk in a monastery. Mixing hagiography, romance, epic, and theology, this work from around 1200 CE raises questions about sexuality and identity, family relationships, and spiritual and secular values.
Review Quotes:
"Ogden's Eufrosine fills a need for saints' lives in translation."--Maureen Boulton, University of Notre Dame
"A welcome addition to the growing corpus of medieval hagiographic works in translation designed for upper-division classroom use." --Nancy Vine Durling, Independent Scholar
"Ogden's excellent side-by-side French and English translation is not only perfect for medieval and modern French courses, but it can be readily utilized in religion, history, literature, psychology, sociology, gender, and feminist study classes." --Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching
"[A] most readable and enjoyable facing translation with a good glossary and bibliography, which will appeal to a wide audience of readers from medievalists to gender studies students." --Mediaevistik