Reading memory and identity in the texts of medieval European holy women / edited by Margaret Cotter-Lynch and Brad Herzog.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cotter-Lynch, Margaret, 1974-

Herzog, Brad.

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

The new Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--Women authors--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Literature, Medieval--Religious aspects--History and criticism.

Memory in literature.

Women and literature--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.

Women and literature.

History.

Literature, Medieval--Women authors.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 264 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

This timely collection of essays examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. The contributors explore the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation in two ways: first, by showing how women drew upon traditions and memories in fashioning their own lived lives; and secondly, by showing how both male and female authors used medieval memory arts to portray those lives for contemporary and future audiences. Drawing upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses of memory, this book will interest scholars of medieval literature, medieval religious history, feminist scholars, and historians of rhetoric. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Nuns on Parade: Memorializing Women in Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa / Helene Scheck Scheck, Helene 13

2 Mnemonic Sanctity and the Ladder of Reading: Notker's "In Natale Sanctarum Feminarum" / Margaret Cotter-Lynch Cotter-Lynch, Margaret 39

3 Envisioning a Saint: Visions in the Miracles of Saint Margaret of Scotland / Catherine Keene Keene, Catherine 57

4 Secret Designs/Public Shapes: Ekphrastic Tensions in Hildegard's Scivias / Claire Barbetti Barbetti, Claire 81

5 Imitating the Imagined: Clemence of Barking's Life of St. Catherine / Barbara Zimbalist Zimbalist, Barbara 105

6 Memory, Identity, and Women's Representation in the Portuguese Reception of Vitae Patrum: Winning a Name / Ana Maria Machado Machado, Ana Maria 135

7 "In mei memoriam facietis": Remembering Ritual and Refiguring "Woman" in Gertrud the Great of Helfta's Exercitia spiritualia / Ella Johnson Johnson, Ella 165

8 Making a Place: Imitatio Mariae in Julian of Norwich's Self-Construction / Elissa Hansen Hansen, Elissa 187

9 Portrait of a Holy Life: Mnemonic Inventiveness in The Book of Margery Kempe / Brad Herzog Herzog, Brad 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230619869

023061986X

OCLC:

755640862