Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women

2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-61986-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 484 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses of memory.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cotter-Lynch, M.

Herzog, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; C.Glenn Introduction; M.Cotter-Lynch B.Herzog Nuns on Parade: Memorializing Women in Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa; H.Scheck Mnemonic Sanctity and the Ladder of Reading: Notker's 'In Natale Sanctarum Feminarum'; M.Cotter-Lynch Envisioning a Saint: Visions in the Miracles of Saint Margaret of Scotland; C.Keene Secret Designs/Public Shapes: Ekphrastic Tensions in Hildegard's Scivias; C.Barbetti Imitating the Imagined: Clemence of Barking's Life of St. Catherine; B.Zimbalist Memory, Identity and Women's Representation in the Portuguese reception of Vitae Patrum: Winning a Name; A.M.Machado 'In mei memoriam facietis': Remembering Ritual and Refiguring 'Woman' in Gertrud the Great of Helfta's Exercitia spiritualia; E.Johnson Makinga Place: Imitatio Mariae in Julian of Norwich's Self-Construction; E.Hanson Portrait of a Holy Life: Mnemonic Inventiveness in The Book of Margery Kempe; B.Herzog

Über Autor(innen)

Cheryl Glenn, Pennsylvania State University
Helene Scheck, State University of New York at Albany
Margaret Cotter-Lynch, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Catherine Keene
Claire Barbetti
Barbara Zimbalist, University of California-Davis
Ana Maria Machado, University of Coimbra
Ella Johnson, St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry
Elissa Hansen, University of Minnesota
Brad Herzog, Saginaw Valley State University