Voices in Dialogue : Reading Women in the Middle Ages /

"Using a dialogue format, contributors to this collection of essays outline key issues in the cultural history of medieval women. Many of the essays in this volume provide compelling evidence that women in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages achieved an accomplished form of literacy, and became...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Olson, Linda, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Frau
Kvinnor och litteratur > historia > medeltiden.
Literatura (história e crítica)
Idade media.
Mulheres.
Litteraturvetenskap.
Gudstjänsten.
Författare > läs- och skrivkunnighet > levnadsförhållanden > medeltiden.
Lesekultur
Women > Middle Ages.
Women and literature.
Literature, Medieval.
Civilization, Medieval.
Civilisation medievale.
Litterature medievale > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et litterature > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
Femmes > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Women and literature > History > To 1500.
Women > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Some opening words
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Reading, writing, and relationships in dialogue / Linda Olson
  • When women preached : an introduction to female homiletic, sacramental, and liturgical roles in the later Middle Ages / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
  • Spaces between letters : Augustine's correspondence with women / Catherine Conybeare
  • Response to Catherine Conybeare : women of letters? / Mark Vessey
  • Sharing texts : Anselmian prayers, a nunnery's psalter, and the role of friendship / Mary Jane Morrow
  • A token of friendship? Anselmian prayers and a nunnery's psalter : response to Mary Jane Morrow : where do we go from here? / David N. Bell
  • The Epistolae duorum amantium and the ascription to Heloise and Abelard / C. Stephen Jaeger
  • The authorship of the Epistolae duorum amantium : a reconsideration / Giles Constable
  • A reply to Giles Constable / C. Stephen Jaeger
  • Listening for the voices of Admont's twelfth-century nuns / Alison I. Beach
  • The voices of women in twelfth-century Europe / John Van Engen
  • Women and creative intelligence in medieval thought / Alcuin Blamires
  • More thoughts on medieval women's intelligence : denied, projected, embodied / Barbara Newman
  • Eciam mulier : women in Lollardy and the problem of sources / Fiona Somerset
  • Eciam lollardi : some further thoughts on Fiona Somerset's "Eciam mulier : women in Lollardy and the problem of sources" / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
  • The Wycliffite woman : reading women in fifteenth-century Bohemia / Alfred Thomas
  • Response to Alfred Thomas's "'The Wycliffite woman': reading women in fifteenth-century Bohemia" / Dyan Elliott
  • Playing doctor : St. Birgitta, ritual reading, and ecclesiastical authority / Katherine Zieman
  • "Voices magnified" : response to Katherine Zieman / Margot Fassler
  • Reading lessons at Syon Abbey : The myroure of oure ladye and the mandates of vernacular theology / Elizabeth Schirmer
  • "General words" : response to Elizabeth Schirmer / Steven Justice
  • The making of The book of Margery Kempe / Nicholas Watson
  • Text and self in The book of Margery Kempe / Felicity Riddy
  • Afterwords / Felicity Riddy and Nicholas Watson
  • Stepping into the pulpit? : women's preaching in The book of Margery Kempe and The examinations of Anne Askew / Genelle Gertz-Robinson
  • Response to Genelle Gertz-Robinson : "Stepping into the pulpit?" / David Wallace
  • Contributors
  • Index of manuscripts
  • Index of historical names, places, and titles.

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