Article: Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn. Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture.(Book Review)

New York: Oxford UP, 2001. xvi, 314 pp. $80.

With this important book Jocelyn Wogan-Browne helps move the study of medieval women to (arguably) the third stage. If the first stage saw medieval women as displaced men (for example, the woman as hero), reflecting the realities of men much as the fathers of the church had earlier done with less sympathy or identification, the second stage, armed with heavy theory, challenged received opinion from a number of angles, often trailing presentist assumptions as it sometimes properly dislodged previous views. In Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture Wogan-Browne takes up an intellectual position that not only "saves ...

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