Gender and holiness : men, women, and saints in late medieval Europe / edited by Samantha J.E. Riches and Sarah Salih.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Gender and holiness: performance and representation in the later Middle Ages / Samantha J.E. Rihes and Sarah Salih -- "The law of sin that is in my members": the problem of male embodiment / Jacqueline Murray -- The role of patronage and audience in the cults of Sts Margaret and Marina of Antioch / Wendy R. Larson -- Virginal effects: text and identity in Ancrene Wisse / Anke Bernau -- Pain, torture and death in the Huntington Library Legenda aurea / Martha Easton -- St George as a male virgin martyr / Samantha J.E. Riches -- Becoming a virgin king: Richard II and Edward the Confessor / Katherine J. Lewis -- Female piety and impiety: selected images of women in wall paintings in England after 1300 / Miriam Gill -- Staging conversion: the Digby saint plays and The book of Margery Kempe / Sarah Salih -- Gendering charity in medieval hagiography / P.H. Cullum -- Ecce homo / Robert Mills.