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03150aam a2200397 i 4500 001 5672B246DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 210616s2021 enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1843846128 020 $a 9781843846123 035 $a (OCoLC)1259537547 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCL $d ESU $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PN682.W37 $b H69 2021 082 04 $a 820.938200902 $2 23 100 1 $a Howes, Hetta Elizabeth, $e author. 245 10 $a Transformative waters in late-medieval literature : $b from Aelred of Rievaulx to the Book of Margery Kempe / $c Hetta Elizabeth Howes. 264 1 $a Woodbridge, Suffolk ; $b D.S. Brewer, $c 2021. 300 $a ix, 210 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 8 $a Women are frequently depicted as unpredictable, difficult to categorise and prone to transformation in medieval religious writings. Water is equally elusive: rivers, wells and seas slip and slide out of the readers' grasp as they alter in metaphorical meaning. This book considers a large span of watery images in a small cluster of late-medieval devotional writings by and for women, in order to explore the association between women and water in the medieval religious imagination. Using writings by Aelred of Rievaulx, Julian of Norwich and a number of anonymous translators - as well as medical, scientific, and encyclopaedic works - it argues for water as an all-purpose metaphor with a particular resonance for them. Its chapters are organised around a number of particular usages of water as a means of mediation and exchange between the human and the divine, from crossing a stream to dissolving in the peaceful sea of God's love. Through analysis of such recurring tropes, this book reveals that whilst water can be used to hint at transformation of the soul, and greater access to the divine, male authors also use the very same metaphorical material to regulate such access for their female readers. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 183 - 201) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: In search of transformative waters -- Chapter One: A very 'able' element -- Chapter Two: Cleaning the soul -- Chapter Three: Speech and scripture -- Chapter Four: Transformative immersion -- Chapter Five: Blood and water -- Conclusion: Reading water. 650 0 $a Literature, Medieval $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Religious literature, English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Water in literature. 650 0 $a Literature, Medieval $x Women authors. 650 0 $a Religious literature, English $x Women authors. 650 7 $a Literature, Medieval. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000151 650 7 $a Literature, Medieval $x Women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000170 650 7 $a Religious literature, English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01094162 650 7 $a Water in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01171767 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Ebook version : $z 9781800102958 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015101.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5672B246DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search