Women's lives : self-representation, reception and appropriation in the Middle Ages / edited by Nahir I. Otaño Gracia and Daniel Armenti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Otaño Gracia, Nahir I., editor.

Armenti, Daniel, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Religion & culture in the Middle Ages

Religion and culture in the Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Women.

Women in literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Physical Description:

xiii, 258 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. ELIZABETH PETROFF AND MYSTICISM

1. Women and Mysticism in the Medieval World / Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff

2. Male Confessors and Female Penitents: Possibilities for Dialogue / Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff

II. SELF-REPRESENTATION

3. The Empowerment of Teresa de Cartagena through Her Patroness Juana de Mendoza / Borja de Cossio

4. Hildegardian Remixes: Hildegard von Bingen and the Appropriation of Auctoritas / Andres Amitai Wilson

5. Language and Trance Theatre / Rebeca Sanmartin Bastida

III. RECEPTION

6. Smuggled Balsam and the Inscription of Memory: Hugeberc von Hildesheim and the Pilgrimage of Saint Willibald / Susan Signe Morrison

7. Gender, Genre and Collaboration in the Life of Ida of Nivelles / Barbara Zimbalist

8. History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman Warrior / Lan Dong

9. A Woman Mystic in Pre-Islamic North Africa: Al Kahina in the Futuh Misr / Denise K. Filios

IV. APPROPRIATION

10. When Romance and Hagiography Meet: Inventing Saintly Women in The South English Legendary / Meriem Pages

11. Selfless Acts of Salvation as Self-Glorification: Saving the Prostitute in Hrotsvith's Plays / Madalina Meirosu

12. Liturgy and the Performance of the Mystical Self / Claire Taylor Jones.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781786838339

1786838338

OCLC:

1308454836