Episode notes
The stories of saints in this episode are from research I did a few years ago. I'm super excited to share them! I read the translations of the medieval text, the Aelfric Lives of Saints.
Bibliography
Aelfric. Aelfric’s Lives of Saints: Being A Set of Sermons on Saints’ Days Formerly Observed by the English Church. 2 vols. Edited by Walter W. Skeat. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Anson, John. “The Female Transvestite in Early Monasticism: The Origin and Development of a Motif.” In Viator, 5 (1974): 1-32.
Aspegren, Kerstin. The Male Woman: A Feminine Ideal in the Early Church. Edited by Rene Kieffer. Stockholm. Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell International,1990.
Bennett Judith M., Ruth Mazo Karras, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe. ...