Screen LibraryWriting religious women：female spiritual and textual practices in late medieval England
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| Group Author: | ; |
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University of Toronto Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Toronto Buffalo |
| Publication Dates: | 2000. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Book of Margery Kempe. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 270 p.: ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0802035175 0802084036 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | I561 |
| CLC: | I561.063 |
| Call Number: | I561.063/W956 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-262) and index. Part. 1. The influence of anchoritic spirituality upon later lay piety. Ancrene wisse and the Book of hours / Bella Millett -- pt. 2. Carthusian links with female spirituality. Women in the Charterhouse? : Julian of Norwich's Revelations of divine love and Marguerite Porete's Mirror of simple souls in British Library, MS Additional 37790 / Marleen Crae ; Spirituality and sex change : Horologium sapientiae and Speculum devotorum / Rebecca Selman ; 'Listen to me, daughter, listen to a faithful counsel' : the Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem / Ann McGovern-Mouron -- pt. 3. The representation of femininity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English religious poetry. A fortress and a shield : the representation of the Virgin in the Ch?ateau d'amour of Robert Grosseteste / Christiania Whitehead ; Yate of heven : conceptions of the female body in the religious lyrics / Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou -- pt. 4. Veneration, performance and delusion in The book of Margery Kempe. Measuring the pilgrim's progress : internal emphases in The book of Margery Kempe / Samuel Fanous ; Veneration of virgin martyrs in Margery Kempe's meditation : influence of the Sarum liturgy and hagiography / Nao··e Kukita Yoshikawa ; Margery's performing body : the translation of late Medieval discursive religious practices / Denis Renevey ; Psychological disorder and the autobiographical impulse in Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and Thomas Hoccleve / Richard Lawes. This collection of commissioned essays explores women's vernacular theology through a wide range of medieval prose and verse texts, from saints' lives to visionary literature. Employing a historicist methodology, the essays are sited at the intersection of two discursive fields: female spiritual practice and female textual practice. The contributors are primarily interested in the relation of women to religious books, as writers, receivers, and as objects of representation. They focus on historical approaches to the question of women's spirituality, and generically unrestricted examinations of issues of female literacy, book ownership, and reading practice. The essays are grouped under four main themes: the influence of anchoritic spirituality upon later lay piety, Carthusian links with female spirituality, the representation of femininity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English religious poetry, and veneration, performance and delusion in the Book of Margery Kempe. |