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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 December 2023
- ISBN 9780197656105
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages228 pages
- Size 156x235x16 mm
- Weight 458 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 b/w figures, 2 maps 459
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Short description:
Radegund is a biography of a remarkable woman--princess, war captive, queen, deaconess, nun, and saint--who lived in early medieval France. Author E. T. Dailey narrates Radegund's life in an accessible way and offers important new insights for experts in the field.
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A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced her position, received consecration as a deaconess, and took monastic vows. A religious leader, who acquired a fragment of the Cross of the Crucifixion for her convent of Holy Cross in Poitiers. And, lastly, a saint, remembered for her healings, exorcisms, and extreme self-mortification. Such was Radegund, a woman who lived through an era defined by headlong change. Honored as a "mother" by subsequent Frankish kings and as a holy woman by her nuns and devotees, Radegund enjoyed a reputation for righteousness that spread throughout the whole of medieval Europe, with later queens emulating her pious achievements. For generations, she defined medieval queenship, female monastic practice, and the expectations associated with holy women. Today, she is often envisioned as a pan-European saint.
Radegund presents a new interpretation of this remarkable woman, examining her vibrant life and legacy. E. T. Dailey shows how she succeeded in establishing a place for herself within this difficult and dangerous world, despite the trials she faced. He also demonstrates how Radegund achieved a position of prominence as a woman in a foreign land without resorting to the violence and intrigue that characterized the lives of other prominent women during this period. Based on a wealth of English, French, and German scholarship, this book will equip experts and lay readers with a concise, authoritative, and accessible portrait of Radegund.
E.T. Dailey's Radegund is both meticulously researched and supremely readable, imbued with a rare, propulsive energy. Here, finally, is Radegund fully-realized-audacious and imperfect, pioneer and survivor.
Table of Contents:
Map 1: Gaul in the Sixth Century
Map 2: Poitiers in the Time of Radegund
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. And the Lots Were Cast
Chapter 2. A Temple Consumed by Fire
Chapter 3. What Can Man Do Unto Me?
Chapter 4. They Will Be as Bears and Wolves
Chapter 5. The Lord Knows His Own
Chapter 6. Veil of Veils, Holy of Holies
Chapter 7. Like Eve Driven from Paradise
Chapter 8. Amen
Appendix 1: Radegund's Letter Dominis sanctis
Appendix 2: Family Tree of Select Merovingians
Bibliography
Index
