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Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe : gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom /

Encompassing the work of historians, art-historians, and literary scholars, these essays explore how interrelated processes of communal inclusion and exclusion - articulated through institutions, discourses, performances, and artefacts - shaped the construction of individual and collective identitie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smith, Katherine Allen, Wells, Scott, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Colección:Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 142.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gender, power, and patronage : the impact of Penelope D. Johnson on medieval studies ; Penelope D. Johnson, the Boswell thesis, and Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe / Katherine Allen Smith, Scott Wells
  • Living with a saint : monastic identity, community, and the ideal of asceticism in the life of an Irish saint / Diane Peters Auslander
  • A tale of two dioceses : prologues as letters in the Vitae authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpré / Christina Roukis-Stern
  • "Within the walls of paradise" : space and community in the Vita of Umiliana de' Cerchi (1219-1246) / Anne M. Schuchman
  • Architectural mimesis and historical memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel / Katherine Allen Smith
  • Holy women and the needle arts : piety, devotion, and stitching the sacred, ca. 500-1150 / Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg
  • The politics of gender and ethnicity in East Francia : the case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950 / Scott Wells
  • Noble women's power as reflected in the foundations of Cistercian houses for nuns in thirteenth-century Northern France : Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres / Constance Hoffman Berman
  • "Inseparable companions" : Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise / Susan Valentine
  • Book, body, and the construction of the self in the Taymouth hours / Kathryn A. Smith
  • Abbott Erluin's blindness : the monastic implications of violent loss of sight / Susan Wade
  • Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Château-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault / Elizabeth A.R. Brown
  • The matter of others : menstrual blood and uncontrolled semen in thirteenth-century kabbalists' polemic against Christians, "bad" Jews, and Muslims / Alexandra Cuffel.