Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women [electronic resource] /
Cotter-Lynch, M.editor.
Herzog, B.editor.
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.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. Nuns on Parade: Memorializing Women in Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa; 2. Mnemonic Sanctity and the Ladder of Reading: Notker's "In Natale Sanctarum Feminarum"; 3. Envisioning a Saint: Visions in the Miracles of Saint Margaret of Scotland; 4. Secret Designs/Public Shapes: Ekphrastic Tensions in Hildegard's Scivias; 5. Imitating the Imagined: Clemence of Barking's Life of St. Catherine
6. Memory, Identity, and Women's Representation in the Portuguese Reception of Vitae Patrum : Winning a Name7. "In mei memoriam facietis": Remembering Ritual and Refiguring "Woman" in Gertrud the Great of Helfta's Exercitia spiritualia; 8. Making a Place: Imitatio Mariae in Julian of Norwich's Self-Construction; 9. Portrait of a Holy Life: Mnemonic Inventiveness in The Book of Margery Kempe; Master Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Civilization—History.
Europe—History.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Literature, Medieval.
Social history.
Sociology.
Cultural History.
European History.
History of Medieval Europe.
Medieval Literature.
Social History.
Gender Studies.