The early Middle Ages
By: edited by Franca Ela Consolino and Judith Herrin
Series: The Bible and women : an encyclopaedia of exegesis and cultural history -- volume 6.1; Middle Ages and the early modern era; Bible and women -- v. 6.1; Bible and women
Publisher: SBL Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9781589835757; 9780884143802
Subjects: Feminist criticism; History; Women in Christianity; Christian women; Religious life; Church history; Bible and feminism; Middle Ages; Bible
Description: "The latest volume in the Bible and Women series examines the relationship between women and the Bible’s reception during the early Middle Ages (500– 1100 CE) in both the Greek East and the Latin West. Essays focus on interactions between women and the Bible through biblical precepts on women and for women, biblical women as the subjects of action or objects of discussion, and writings by women that refer to the Bible as a moral authority. The women discussed in the volume range from the well-known, including the nuns Kassia in Byzantium and Hrosvita in the West, the aristocrat Dhuoda, author of a moral guide for her son, Gisela, the sister of Charlemagne and abbess of Chelles, and her niece Rotrude, to those who remain anonymous. Contributions also explore how the Old and New Testaments exercised influence on emerging Islam."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Franca Ela Consolino and Judith Herrin; title: “Woman’s Head Is Man”: Kyriarchy and the Rhetoric of Women’s Subordination in Byzantine Literature / Stavroula Constantinou; title: Women and the Bible in Byzantium / Rosa Maria Parrinello; title: Kassia the Melodist (ca. 810–ca. 865) and Her Use of the Scriptures / Anna M. Silvas; title: Byzantine Reception of Biblical Revelation on the Virgin Mary Mary B. Cunningham; title: The Virgin Mary and Ancient Jewish Literature / Martha Himmelfarb; title: The Heavenly Guard of the Mother of God: Mary between the Angels in Early Byzantine Art / Maria Lidova; title: Early Medieval Iconography of the Virgin Mary between East and West / Giuseppa Z. Zanichelli; title: Women, Wine, and the Apostasy of the Wise: Sirach 19:2 in Medieval Latin Literature / Giuseppe Cremascoli; title: The Women of the Old Testament in Early Medieval Poetry: Judith and the Others / Francesco Stella; title: Women and the Bible in Latin Letter Collections of the Early Middle Ages (Sixth to Ninth Century) / Christiane Veyrard-Cosme; title: Women Writers and Holy Writ in the Latin Early Middle Ages: The Bible in Dhuoda and Hrotsvit Franca Ela Consolino; title: The Reception of Biblical Texts and Their Normative Effect upon Marriage, Adultery, and Divorce from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century / Ines Weber; title: Biblical Figures of Women in the Qur’an / Ulrike Bechmann.