Voices in dialogue : reading women in the Middle Ages / edited by Linda Olson and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, editor.

Olson, Linda, 1962- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and literature--History--To 1500.

Women and literature.

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

Women.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Civilization, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (527 pages)

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2005]

Summary:

"Using a dialogue format, contributors to this collection of essays outline key issues in the cultural history of medieval women. Many of the essays in this volume provide compelling evidence that women in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages achieved an accomplished form of literacy, and became actively involved in literary networks of textual production and exchange. These essays also present new research on questions of the literacy and authorship of historical women. In so doing they demonstrate that medieval women, like many medieval men, did not read in isolation, but were surrounded and assisted by both male and female colleagues ... Voices in Dialogue challenges the historical and literary work of modern medieval scholars by questioning traditionally accepted evidence, methodologies, and conclusions. It will push those engaged in the field of medieval studies to reflect upon the manner in which they conceive, write, and teach history, as it urges them to situate historical women prominently within the intellectual and spiritual culture of the Middle Ages."--Jacket

Contents:

Some opening words

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Reading, writing, and relationships in dialogue / Linda Olson

When women preached : an introduction to female homiletic, sacramental, and liturgical roles in the later Middle Ages / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

Spaces between letters : Augustine's correspondence with women / Catherine Conybeare

Response to Catherine Conybeare : women of letters? / Mark Vessey

Sharing texts : Anselmian prayers, a nunnery's psalter, and the role of friendship / Mary Jane Morrow

A token of friendship? Anselmian prayers and a nunnery's psalter : response to Mary Jane Morrow : where do we go from here? / David N. Bell

The Epistolae duorum amantium and the ascription to Heloise and Abelard / C. Stephen Jaeger

The authorship of the Epistolae duorum amantium : a reconsideration / Giles Constable

A reply to Giles Constable / C. Stephen Jaeger

Listening for the voices of Admont's twelfth-century nuns / Alison I. Beach

The voices of women in twelfth-century Europe / John Van Engen

Women and creative intelligence in medieval thought / Alcuin Blamires

More thoughts on medieval women's intelligence : denied, projected, embodied / Barbara Newman

Eciam mulier : women in Lollardy and the problem of sources / Fiona Somerset

Eciam lollardi : some further thoughts on Fiona Somerset's "Eciam mulier : women in Lollardy and the problem of sources" / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

The Wycliffite woman : reading women in fifteenth-century Bohemia / Alfred Thomas

Response to Alfred Thomas's "'The Wycliffite woman': reading women in fifteenth-century Bohemia" / Dyan Elliott

Playing doctor : St. Birgitta, ritual reading, and ecclesiastical authority / Katherine Zieman

"Voices magnified" : response to Katherine Zieman / Margot Fassler

Reading lessons at Syon Abbey : The myroure of oure ladye and the mandates of vernacular theology / Elizabeth Schirmer

"General words" : response to Elizabeth Schirmer / Steven Justice

The making of The book of Margery Kempe / Nicholas Watson

Text and self in The book of Margery Kempe / Felicity Riddy

Afterwords / Felicity Riddy and Nicholas Watson

Stepping into the pulpit? : women's preaching in The book of Margery Kempe and The examinations of Anne Askew / Genelle Gertz-Robinson

Response to Genelle Gertz-Robinson : "Stepping into the pulpit?" / David Wallace

Contributors

Index of manuscripts

Index of historical names, places, and titles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780268203566

0268203563

OCLC:

1285172375

Publisher Number:

2027/heb34660 hdl