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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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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.