| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 69 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Gender in the Middle Ages Series ; v.21 |
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Gender in the Middle Ages.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages -- Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages: Giving Voice to Silence -- Copyright -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface: Catherine: A Career Guiding Hundreds of Dream Visions -- Catherine: A Tribute -- Abbreviations -- Introduction Speaking of Past and Present: Giving Voice to Silence -- Part I -- 1 Voicing the Creed in On Lofsong of ure Louerde -- 2 Breath Courting Silence in The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd -- 3 Of Loves Both Spoken and Silent: Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya and the Wooing Group -- Part II |
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4 Sourcing a Critical Edition of A Talkyng of the Loue of God -- 5 Speaking Beyond the Anchorhold in Richard Rolle's Form of Living -- 6 'Speech is silver, silence gold': Enclosure and Silence in Late Medieval Texts for Religious Women -- 7 Arboreal Articulation: The Testimony of Trees in the Late Medieval Religious Imaginary -- Part III -- 8 Vernacular Textuality in Thirteenth-Century England: The Ancrene Wisse Group Recontextualized -- 9 Not So Silent After All: Women Intellectuals and Readers in Medieval Oxford -- 10 A Ladder for Sisters -- Part IV |
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11 Silence, Sources and Medieval Women: From Alien Bride to Spiritual Director -- 12 Anchoritic Interplay between Jan van Ruusbroec's The Spiritual Espousals and its Contributions to The Chastising of God's Children -- 13 Cecily Neville's Devotional Library: Networks of Readers and Models of Female Piety -- Envoi 'Þis seli stilðe' Silence and Stillness in the Anchorhold: Lessons for the Modern World? -- Bibliography of the Writings of Catherine Innes-Parker -- Tabula in Memoriam -- Gender in the Middle Ages -- Gender in the Middle Ages |
| Summary |
Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Women -- Religious life -- History
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Women -- Prayers and devotions -- History
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Women in Christianity.
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Women -- Religious life.
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Women in Christianity.
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Women -- Religious life.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gunn, Cate, editor.
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Herbert McAvoy, Liz, editor.
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Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781805431190 |
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1805431196 |
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