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xvii, 508 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Some opening words -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Reading, writing, and relationships in dialogue / Linda Olson -- When women preached : an introduction to female homiletic, sacramental, and liturgical roles in the later Middle Ages / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton -- Spaces between letters : Augustine's correspondence with women / Catherine Conybeare -- Response to Catherine Conybeare : women of letters? / Mark Vessey -- Sharing texts : Anselmian prayers, a nunnery's psalter, and the role of friendship / Mary Jane Morrow -- A token of friendship? Anselmian prayers and a nunnery's psalter : response to Mary Jane Morrow : where do we go from here? / David N. Bell -- The Epistolae duorum amantium and the ascription to Heloise and Abelard / C. Stephen Jaeger -- The authorship of the Epistolae duorum amantium : a reconsideration / Giles Constable -- A reply to Giles Constable / C. Stephen Jaeger -- Listening for the voices of Admont's twelfth-century nuns / Alison I. Beach -- The voices of women in twelfth-century Europe / John Van Engen -- Women and creative intelligence in medieval thought / Alcuin Blamires -- More thoughts on medieval women's intelligence : denied, projected, embodied / Barbara Newman -- Eciam mulier : women in Lollardy and the problem of sources / Fiona Somerset -- Eciam lollardi : some further thoughts on Fiona Somerset's "Eciam mulier : women in Lollardy and the problem of sources" / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton -- The Wycliffite woman : reading women in fifteenth-century Bohemia / Alfred Thomas -- Response to Alfred Thomas's "'The Wycliffite woman': reading women in fifteenth-century Bohemia" / Dyan Elliott -- Playing doctor : St. Birgitta, ritual reading, and ecclesiastical authority / Katherine Zieman -- "Voices magnified" : response to Katherine Zieman / Margot Fassler -- Reading lessons at Syon Abbey : The myroure of oure ladye and the mandates of vernacular theology / Elizabeth Schirmer -- "General words" : response to Elizabeth Schirmer / Steven Justice -- The making of The book of Margery Kempe / Nicholas Watson -- Text and self in The book of Margery Kempe / Felicity Riddy -- Afterwords / Felicity Riddy and Nicholas Watson -- Stepping into the pulpit? : women's preaching in The book of Margery Kempe and The examinations of Anne Askew / Genelle Gertz-Robinson -- Response to Genelle Gertz-Robinson : "Stepping into the pulpit?" / David Wallace -- Contributors -- Index of manuscripts -- Index of historical names, places, and titles. |
| Summary |
"Using a dialogue format, contributors to this collection of essays outline key issues in the cultural history of medieval women. Many of the essays in this volume provide compelling evidence that women in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages achieved an accomplished form of literacy, and became actively involved in literary networks of textual production and exchange. These essays also present new research on questions of the literacy and authorship of historical women. In so doing they demonstrate that medieval women, like many medieval men, did not read in isolation, but were surrounded and assisted by both male and female colleagues ... Voices in Dialogue challenges the historical and literary work of modern medieval scholars by questioning traditionally accepted evidence, methodologies, and conclusions. It will push those engaged in the field of medieval studies to reflect upon the manner in which they conceive, write, and teach history, as it urges them to situate historical women prominently within the intellectual and spiritual culture of the Middle Ages."--Jacket. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
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All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Women and literature -- History -- To 1500.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Olson, Linda, 1962- editor.
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Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, editor.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0268037175 (cloth ; zlk. paper) |
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9780268037178 (cloth ; zlk. paper) |
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9780268203566 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb34660 hdl |
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