Handmaids of God: Images of Service in the Lives of Merovingian Female Saints
Merovingian hagiographies make extensive use of the metaphor of service to demonstrate the sanctity of their subjects. These religious images emerged from a society in which slaves and servants were both ubiquitous and demeaned, and the metaphors were embedded in the social realities of service. Thi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2019]
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Journal of religious history
Year: 2019, Volume: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 359-379 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Frankish Empire
/ History 486-687
/ Female saint
/ Servant woman
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RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KCD Hagiography; saints |
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