Rewriting History and the Myth of the French Nation - The Hagiography of Radegund of Poitiers from Medieval to Modernity

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.