Bridging the Difference: Reconceptualising the Angel in Medieval Hagiography
- Author / Editor
- Ashton, Gail.
Bridging the Difference: Reconceptualising the Angel in Medieval Hagiography
- Published
- Literature and Theology 16: 235-47, 2002.
- Description
- Uses Luce Irigaray's notion of the "ethics of alterity" to explore the fusion of masculine and feminine in the depiction of angels in several medieval narratives, including Marian accounts and Chaucer's and Bokenham's stories of St. Cecilia. In SNT and elsewhere, angels are masculine constructs, associated with sight, but also feminized symbols associated with smell, sound, and touch.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.