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Women's lives : self-representation, reception and appropriation in the Middle Ages : essays in honour of Elizabeth Petroff / edited by Nahir I. Otaño Gracia and Daniel Armenti.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Religion and culture series.
- Religion and culture series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
- Women.
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Women's Lives recalls and celebrates the work of Elizabeth Petroff, an eminent scholar of Medieval Women Mystics, by proposing that the lives of medieval women may be read as models of positive transgression. Their representation and reception make powerful arguments for equality, agency and authority on behalf of the writers who employed them.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Series Editors' Preface
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. Elizabeth Petroff and Mysticism
- 1: Women and Mysticism in the Medieval World
- 2. Male Confessors and Female Penitents: Possibilities for Dialogue
- II. Self-Representation
- 3: The Empowerment of Teresa de Cartagena through Her Patroness
- 4: Hildegardian Remixes: Hildegard von Bingen and the Appropriation of Auctoritas
- 5: Language and Trance Theatre
- III. Reception
- 6: Smuggled Balsam and the Inscription of Memory: Hugeberc von Hildesheim and the Pilgrimage of Saint Willibald
- 7: Gender, Genre and Collaboration in the Life of Ida of Nivelles
- 8: History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman Warrior
- 9: A Woman Mystic in Pre-Islamic North Africa: Al Kāhina in the Futūḥ Miṣr
- IV. Appropriation
- 10: When Romance and Hagiography Meet: Inventing Saintly Women in The South English Legendary
- 11: Selfless Acts of Salvation as Self-Glorification: Saving the Prostitute in Hrotsvith's Plays
- 12: Liturgy and the Performance of the Mystical Self
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Otaño Gracia, Nahir I. Women's Lives
- ISBN:
- 9781786838353
- 1786838354
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