| Description |
xix, 292, [1] p. : ill. |
| Series |
Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 142 |
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Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 142.
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| Note |
"The essays in this collection are offered to Penelope D. Johnson ... on the occasion of her retirement"--Pref. |
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"Most of the papers ... had their inception in a series of three panels convened in Pene's honor at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May of 2006."--Pref. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Gender, power, and patronage : the impact of Penelope D. Johnson on medieval studies ; Penelope D. Johnson, the Boswell thesis, and Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe / Katherine Allen Smith, Scott Wells -- Living with a saint : monastic identity, community, and the ideal of asceticism in the life of an Irish saint / Diane Peters Auslander -- A tale of two dioceses : prologues as letters in the Vitae authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpre / Christina Roukis-Stern -- "Within the walls of paradise" : space and community in the Vita of Umiliana de' Cerchi (1219-1246) / Anne M. Schuchman -- Architectural mimesis and historical memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel / Katherine Allen Smith -- Holy women and the needle arts : piety, devotion, and stitching the sacred, ca. 500-1150 / Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg -- The politics of gender and ethnicity in East Francia : the case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950 / Scott Wells -- Noble women's power as reflected in the foundations of Cistercian houses for nuns in thirteenth-century Northern France : Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres / Constance Hoffman Berman -- "Inseparable companions" : Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise / Susan Valentine -- Book, body, and the construction of the self in the Taymouth hours / Kathryn A. Smith -- Abbott Erluin's blindness : the monastic implications of violent loss of sight / Susan Wade -- Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Chateau-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault / Elizabeth A.R. Brown -- The matter of others : menstrual blood and uncontrolled semen in thirteenth-century kabbalists' polemic against Christians, "bad" Jews, and Muslims / Alexandra Cuffel. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Johnson, Penelope D. (Penelope Delafield), 1938-
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Religion and sociology -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Monastic and religious life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Europe -- Religious life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Katherine Allen.
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Wells, Scott, 1970-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9789004171251 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9004171258 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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