Performing virginity and testing chastity in the Middle Ages / Kathleen Coyne Kelly.

Saints' lives and the rhetoric of gender : male and female in Merovingian hagiography / John Kitchen.

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Christian hagiography - History

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Performing virginity and testing chastity in the Middle Ages / Kathleen Coyne Kelly.

Saints' lives and the rhetoric of gender : male and female in Merovingian hagiography / John Kitchen.