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03595aam a2200481 i 4500 001 3FCFF08C072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 200224t20202020enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781641893770 020 $a 164189377X 035 $a (OCoLC)1141500769 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d OCLCQ $d QGJ $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d OHX $d XII $d J9U $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCQ $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a e------ 050 4 $a PN682.W6 $b P69 2020 082 04 $a 809.021 $2 23 100 1 $a Powell, Morgan, $d 1959- $e author. 245 10 $a Gender, reading, and truth in the twelfth century : $b the woman in the mirror / $c Morgan Powell. 264 1 $a Leeds : $b Arc Humanities Press, $c [2020] 300 $a x, 419 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Medieval media cultures 520 $a The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden interest in and legitimization of literature in these "vulgar tongues"? Until now, the answer has centred on the somewhat nebulous role of new female vernacular readers. Powell argues that a different appraisal of the same evidence offers a window onto something more momentous: not "women readers" but instead a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century. This woman is at the centre of a re-conception of Christian knowing, a veritable revolution in the mediation of knowledge and truth. By following this figure through detailed readings of key early works, Powell unveils a surprise, a new poetics of the body meant to embrace the capacities of new audiences and viewers of medieval literature and visual art 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Mutations of the reading woman -- Reading as Mary did -- Constructing the woman's mirror -- Seeking the reader/viewer of the St. Albans Psalter -- Quae est ista, quae ascendit? (Canticles 3:6) : rethinking the woman reader in Early Old French literature -- Ego dilecto meo et dilectus meus mihi (Canticles 6:2) : Mary's reading and the Epiphany of Empathy -- A new poetics for AÌventiure : the exposition of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival -- The heart, the wound, and the word -- sacred and profane. 648 7 $a To 1500 $2 fast 650 0 $a Literature, Medieval $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Women and literature $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Women $x History. $z Europe $x History. 650 7 $a Literature, Medieval. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000151 650 7 $a French literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00934688 650 7 $a German literature $x Middle High German. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710975 650 7 $a Literature, Medieval $x Appreciation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000152 650 7 $a Women and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177093 650 7 $a Women $x Books and reading. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176596 650 7 $a Women $x Middle Ages. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907280 650 7 $a Women $x Religious life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176921 651 7 $a Europe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245064 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Medieval media cultures. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020924.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3FCFF08C072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search