Women's Lives
Self-Representation, Reception and Appropriation in the Middle Ages
Golygydd(ion) Nahir I. Otaño Gracia,Daniel Armenti
Iaith: Saesneg
Dosbarthiad(au): Medieval
Cyfres: Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
- Chwefror 2022 · 352 tudalen ·234x156mm
- · Clawr Caled - 9781786838339
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Women’s Lives presents essays on the ways in which the lives and voices of women permeated medieval literature and culture. The ubiquity of women amongst the medieval canon provides an opportunity for considering a different sphere of medieval culture and power that is frequently not given the attention it requires. The reception and use of female figures from this period has proven influential as subjects in literary, political, and social writings; the lives of medieval women may be read as models of positive transgression, and their representation and reception make powerful arguments for equality, agency and authority on behalf of the writers who employed them. The volume includes essays on well-known medieval women, such as Hildegard of Bingen and Teresa of Cartagena, as well as women less-known to scholars of the European Middle Ages, such as Al-Kāhina and Liang Hongyu. Each essay is directly related to the work of Elizabeth Petroff, a scholar of Medieval Women Mystics who helped recover texts written by medieval women.
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‘The questions, issues and challenges that Elizabeth Petroff addressed throughout her seminal work in medieval studies are still our questions, issues and challenges today. This astutely conceived, timely collection of essays makes clear why students are now reading the work of women mystics and other medieval authors as never before, and why they are finding in these early texts messages of hope and guidance for our own troubled times.’
-Jim Hicks, Executive Editor, The Massachusetts Review
‘This collection challenges scholarly assumptions about authority, reception and the use – both medieval and modern – of medieval women’s lives and writing. Centring women from Asia, Africa and Europe, it represents a necessary contribution to medieval scholarship and is a powerful tribute to the lasting influence and legacy of Elizabeth Petroff.’
-Jessica Barr, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Nahir I. Otaño Gracia and Daniel Armenti
IElizabeth Petroff and Mysticism
1Women and Mysticism in the Medieval World
Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff
2Male Confessors and Female Penitents: Possibilities for Dialogue
Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff
IISelf-Representation
3The Empowerment of Teresa de Cartagena through Her Patroness Juana de Mendoza
Borja de Cossío
4Hildegardian Remixes: Hildegard von Bingen and the Appropriation of Auctoritas
Andrés Amitai Wilson
5Language and Trance Theatre
Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida
IIIReception
6Smuggled Balsam and the Inscription of Memory: Hugeberc von Hildesheim and the Pilgrimage of Saint Willibald
Susan Signe Morrison
7Gender, Genre and Collaboration in the Life of Ida of Nivelles
Barbara Zimbalist
8History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman Warrior
Lan Dong
9A Woman Mystic in Pre-Islamic North Africa: Al Kāhina in the Futūḥ Miṣr
Denise K. Filios
IV Appropriation
10When Romance and Hagiography Meet: Inventing Saintly Women in The South English Legendary
Meriem Pagès
11Selfless Acts of Salvation as Self-Glorification: Saving the Prostitute in Hrotsvith’s Plays
Madalina Meirosu
12Liturgy and the Performance of the Mystical Self
Claire Taylor Jones