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

ISBN

9781137064837

Topic

History

Subtopic

Social History

Index

History

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