Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingor...

Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn. Writing Faith: theme Sign, and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy Chicago: U of Chicago P 1999 x + 205 pp ISBN 0-226-02962 $2750

The last sum of two units decades have witnessed an extraordinary outpouring of studies in hagiography. The saints and their fictitious storys are enjoying what can almost be called a renaissance. Saints' lives are in favor among scholars in the way Arthurian literature was in the seventies and eighties. Female saints in particular have been earnestly studied, no doubt as a issue of the reenvisioning of women's history in the late