Rewriting History and the Myth of the French Nation

This multidisciplinary analysis of the cult of Radegund of Poitiers, from the sixth century to the twenty-first, illuminates the roles saints play at the intersection of gender and politics. No other medieval saint was so politically charged or had such an astonishing range of constructed personae. The many "e;Radegunds"e; encountered in this study - virgin, wife, mother, royalist, republican, col...