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

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

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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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Yes, you can access Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women by M. Cotter-Lynch, B. Herzog, M. Cotter-Lynch,B. Herzog in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Social History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780230619869
eBook ISBN
9781137064837
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Nuns on Parade: Memorializing Women in Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa
  11. 2. Mnemonic Sanctity and the Ladder of Reading: Notker’s “In Natale Sanctarum Feminarum”
  12. 3. Envisioning a Saint: Visions in the Miracles of Saint Margaret of Scotland
  13. 4. Secret Designs/Public Shapes: Ekphrastic Tensions in Hildegard’s Scivias
  14. 5. Imitating the Imagined: Clemence of Barking’s Life of St. Catherine
  15. 6. Memory, Identity, and Women’s Representation in the Portuguese Reception of Vitae Patrum : Winning a Name
  16. 7. “In mei memoriam facietis”: Remembering Ritual and Refiguring “Woman” in Gertrud the Great of Helfta’s Exercitia spiritualia
  17. 8. Making a Place: Imitatio Mariae in Julian of Norwich’s Self-Construction
  18. 9. Portrait of a Holy Life: Mnemonic Inventiveness in The Book of Margery Kempe
  19. Master Bibliography
  20. Index