Listen daughter : the Speculum Virginum and the formation of religious women in the Middle Ages / edited by Constant J. Mews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mews, C. J.

Series:

New Middle Ages

The new Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and religion--History.

Women and religion.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Church history--Middle Ages.

Women--Religious life--Europe.

Women.

Women--Religious life.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

306 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

The words " Listen daughter" ("Audi filia," from Psalm 44) were frequently used in exhortations to religious women in the 12th century, a period of dramatic growth in the involvement of women in various forms of religious life. This volume looks at the " Mirror for Virgins" ("Speculum Virginum" ), an illustrated dialogue between a nun and her spiritual mentor written by a monk not long before Hildegard of Bingen started to record her visions. An appendix provides the first English translation, by Barbara Newman, of significant excerpts from the "Speculum,"

Contents:

1. Virginity, Theology, and Pedagogy in the Speculum virginum / Constant J. Mews 15

2. The Speculum virginum: The Testimony of the Manuscripts / Jutta Seyfarth 41

3. Female Religious Life and the Cura Monialium in Hirsau Monasticism, 1080 to 1150 / Julie Hotchin 59

4. From Ecclesiology to Mariology: Patristic Traces and Innovation in the Speculum virginum / Kim E. Power 85

5. The Speculum virginum and the Audio-Visual Poetics of Women's Religious Instruction / Morgan Powell 111

6. "Listen, Daughters of Light": The Epithalamium and Musical Innovation in Twelfth-Century Germany / Catherine Jeffreys 137

7. The Cloister and the Garden: Gendered Images of Religious Life from the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Janice M. Pinder 159

8. The Speculum virginum and Traditions of Medieval Dialogue / Sabina Flanagan 181

9. The Literature of Spiritual Formation for Women in France and England, 1080 to 1180 / Elisabeth Bos 201

10. Herrad of Hohenbourg: A Synthesis of Learning in The Garden of Delights / Fiona Griffiths 221

11. The Second Blossoming of a Text: The Spieghel der Maechden and the Modern Devotion / Urban Kusters 245

Appendix Speculum virginum: Selected Excerpts / Translated by Barbara Newman 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312240082

OCLC:

47232331