Screen LibraryReading memory and identity in the texts of medieval European holy women
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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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230619869, 2012. |
| Carrier Form: | 288 p. |
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9780230619869 9781137064837 : 1137064838 : |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Contents: | 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. |