Święte w męskim przebraniu w Żywotach świętych Starego i Nowego Zakonu Piotra Skargi

• Authors: Zielińska Katarzyna

Title variants

EN

Women Saints in Masculine Clothing in Żywoty świętych Starego i Nowego Zakonu by Piotr Skarga

Abstracts

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Women saints disguised as men are a special case of hagiographic heroines. They do not achieve a higher social status or have privileges resulting from being a man. Besides the presentation of saints: Maryna, Eufrozyna, Eugenia and Apollinara, based on Żywoty świętych [Lives of the Saints] by Piotr Skarga, this article attempts to respond to the questions concerning the sense of their efforts. Did they struggle to hide their biological sex to free their sexuality, or did they want to achieve a special sanctity reserved exclusively for men? Yet another reflection is connected with the manner of presenting these ambiguous heroines as well as the assessment of their behaviour carried out by the author of Żywoty świętych.

Keywords

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sex; hagiography; asexuality; coverture; masuline dress

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Prace Literaturoznawcze
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 23-34

Contributors

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Zielińska Katarzyna