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work_nie7luiwwzb5hkkw5zw76fpama	Kirsten N. Mendoza	Saintly Women: Medieval Saints, Modern Women, and Intimate Partner Violence. Nancy E. Nienhuis and Beverly Mayne Kienzle. Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture 12. London: Routledge, 2018. xvi + 198 pp. $155	2020	2	.pdf	application/pdf	882	62	48	Saintly Women: Medieval Saints, Modern Women, and Intimate Partner Violence. Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture 12. traditions in providing theological justifications for intimate partner violence (IPV). diverse faith traditions to end abuse, they also reveal that historical studies rarely accompany such critical work. Their book thus focuses on archival narratives of violence to challenge the continued "misuse and misapplication of religious and cultural beliefs" to excuse hagiographies of medieval and early modern Christian saints and martyrs that cultivated Saintly Women contextualizes hagiographic accounts, uncovers the patterns and attitudes that enable violence, against women as indicative of feminine subordination in early Christian communities, behind the commemoration of domestic abuse victims, whose hagiographies conveniently align with oppressive social, economic, and political patriarchal norms. work on critical race studies, the global spread of Christianity, and on the erotics of Saintly Women provides a St Andrews Studies in French History and Culture 9.	./cache/work_nie7luiwwzb5hkkw5zw76fpama.pdf	./txt/work_nie7luiwwzb5hkkw5zw76fpama.txt