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Title:

Reading memory and identity in the texts of medieval European holy women / edited by Margaret Cotter-Lynch and Brad Herzog.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xxiv, 264 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Memory in literature.
Women and literature--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Other Authors:

Cotter-Lynch, Margaret, 1974-
Herzog, Brad, Dr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Nuns on parade: memorializing women in Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa / Helene Scheck -- Mnemonic sanctity and the ladder of reading: Notker's "In natale sanctarum femininarum" / Margaret Cotter-Lynch -- Envisioning a saint: visions in the miracles of Saint Margaret of Scotland / Catherine Keene -- Secret designs-public shapes: ekphrastic tensions in Hildegard's Scivias / Claire Barbetti -- Imitating the imagined: Clemence of Barking's Life of St. Catherine / Barbara Zimbalist -- Memory, identity, and women's representation in the Portuguese reception of Vitae patrum: winning a name / Ana Maria Machado -- "In mei memoriam facietis": remembering ritual and refiguring "woman" in Gertrude the Great of Helfta's Exercitia spiritualia / Ella Johnson -- Making a place: imitatio Mariae in Julian of Norwich's self-construction / Elissa Hansen -- Portrait of a holy life: mnemonic inventiveness in The book of Margery Kempe / Brad Herzog.

Series:

The new Middle Ages

ISBN:

023061986X
9780230619869

OCLC:

(OCoLC)755640862

LCCN:

2011039088

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)