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03117aam a2200397 i 4500 001 2EDCEAB8E5A311E9B7B99A5997128E48 003 SILO 005 20191003010029 008 190611s2019 ne b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019024190 020 $a 9004400370 020 $a 9789004400375 035 $a (OCoLC)1096223024 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-sp--- 050 00 $a PQ6055 P54 2019 100 1 $a Piera, Montserrat $e author. 245 10 $a Women readers and writers in medieval Iberia : $b spinning the text / $c by Montserrat Piera. 264 1 $a Leiden ; $b Brill, $c [2019] 300 $a xxiii, 483 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a The medieval and early modern Iberian world ; $v volume 71 520 $a "This book is devoted to medieval Iberian women, readers and writers. Focusing on the stories and texts women heard, visually experienced or read, and the stories that they rewrote, the work explores women's experiences and cultural practices and their efforts to make sense of their place within their familial networks and communities. The study is based on two methodological and interpretive threads: a new paradigm to represent premodern reading and, a study of women's writing, or, more precisely, women's textualities, as a process of creating words but also acts, social practices, emotions and, ultimately, affectus, understood here as the embodiment of the ability to affect and be affected"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: A Space on the Page -- Reading women. A Woman's Dilemma: To Read or not To Read -- What Every Woman Should Know: Women Readers and the Preachers -- Fantasy and Resistance: Medieval Women and Romance -- Writing women. The Court. Lettering Power and Auctoritas: Violant de Bar, Queen of Aragon, a "dame sans per" -- "Es verdad que lo vi y pasoÌ por mi": Leonor LoÌpez de CoÌrdoba's Chronicle of Truth -- The convent. Forging an "interior monastery:" Constanza de Castilla's Libro de devociones y oficios -- Disabling Rhetoric in Teresa de Cartagena's Arboleda de los enfermos and Admiracion Operum Dey -- Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi: Regendering Christ's Passio -- Epilogue: Discarding the Distaff: Rewriting Minerva in Beatriz Bernal's CristaliaÌn de EspanÌa -- Conclusion. 650 0 $a Spanish literature $x History and critcism. $x History and critcism. 650 0 $a Spanish literature $y To 1500 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Spanish literature $y Classical period, 1500-1700 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Women and literature $z Spain $x History. 650 0 $a Women $x History $z Spain $x History $y To 1500. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Piera, Montserrat, $t Women readers and writers in medieval Iberia $d Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019. $z 9789004406490 $w (DLC) 2019024191 830 0 $a Medieval and early modern Iberian world; $v v. 71. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230503011351.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2EDCEAB8E5A311E9B7B99A5997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search