The voice of silence : women's literacy in a men's church / edited by Thérèse de Hemptinne and María Eugenia Góngora.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hemptinne, Thérèse de.

Góngora, María Eugenia.

Series:

Medieval church studies ; 9.

Medieval church studies ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179--Criticism and interpretation.

Hildegard.

Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179.

Women scholars--Europe--History--To 1500.

Women scholars.

Women--Europe--Social conditions.

Women.

Women mystics.

History.

Christian women saints.

Women in the Catholic Church.

Literacy.

Criticism and interpretation.

Europe.

Social conditions.

Literacy--Europe--History--To 1500.

Women in the Catholic Church--History--To 1500.

Christian women saints--Europe--History--To 1500.

Women mystics--Europe--History--To 1500.

Mysticism--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Mysticism.

Mysticism--Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

xiv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, 2004.

Contents:

Introduction: The Voice of Silence: A Chilean-Flemish Research Project / Therese de Hemptinne, Maria Eugenia Gongora vii

From Hildegard to Hadewijch: The Reappearance of the Female Voice in Medieval Literate Culture

Priests, Prophets, and Magicians: Max Weber and Pierre Bourdieu vs Hildegard of Bingen / Jeroen Deploige 3

Feminea Forma and Virga: Two Images of Incarnation in Hildegard of Bingen's Symphonia / Maria Eugenia Gongora 23

The Eve-Mary Dichotomy in the Symphonia of Hildegard of Bingen / Maria Isabel Flisfisch 37

Virginitas and Auctoritas: Two Threads in the Fabric of Hildegard of Bingen's Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum / Beatriz Meli 47

Gender and Genre: The Design of Hadewijch's Book of Visions / Veerle Fraeters 57

Religious Women and their Books: A Flourishing Reading and Writing Culture

'Staining the Speech of Things Divine': The Uses of Literacy in Medieval Beguine Communities / Walter Simons 85

Reading, Writing, and Devotional Practices: Lay and Religious Women and the Written Word in the Low Countries (1350-1550) / Therese De Hemptinne 111

Songs of Praise for the 'Illiterate': Latin Hymns in Middle Dutch Prose Translation / Youri Desplenter 127

Literate Women Beheld by Men: Male Representations of Female Writing and Reading Practices

De litterali et morali earum instruccione: Women's Literacy in Thirteenth-Century Latin Agogic Texts / Katrien Heene 145

The 'Various Writings of Humanity': Johannes Tauler on Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias / Jeffrey F. Hamburger 167

Ex levitate mulierum: Masculine Mysticism and Jan van Ruusbroec's Perception of Religious Women / Geert Warnar 193

Check and Double-check: An Unknown Vision Cycle by a Religious Woman from the Low Countries / Wybren Scheepsma 207

Epilogue: 'Silent Women, Holy Women?': Some Reflections on the Voice of Silence / Marysa Demoor 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

250351488X :

OCLC:

54973853