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Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women

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Author(s): Margaret Cotter-Lynch, Brad Herzog (eds.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2012

Language: English
Tags: Cultural History; European History; History of Medieval Europe; Medieval Literature; Social History; Gender Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Nuns on Parade: Memorializing Women in Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa....Pages 13-38
Mnemonic Sanctity and the Ladder of Reading: Notker’s “in Natale Sanctarum Feminarum”....Pages 39-56
Envisioning a Saint: Visions in the Miracles of Saint Margaret of Scotland....Pages 57-79
Secret Designs/Public Shapes: Ekphrastic Tensions in Hildegard’s Scivias....Pages 81-104
Imitating the Imagined: Clemence of Barking’s Life of St. Catherine....Pages 105-134
Memory, Identity, and Women’s Representation in the Portuguese Reception of Vitae Patrum: Winning a Name....Pages 135-164
“In Mei Memoriam Facietis”: Remembering Ritual and Refiguring “Woman” in Gertrud the Great of Helfta’s Exercitia Spiritualia....Pages 165-186
Making a Place: Imitatio Mariae in Julian of Norwich’s Self-Construction....Pages 187-209
Portrait of a Holy Life: Mnemonic Inventiveness in the Book of Margery Kempe....Pages 211-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-264