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Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture

Authorship and Authority in a Female Community
Buch | Hardcover
350 Seiten
2012
York Medieval Press (Verlag)
978-1-903153-43-7 (ISBN)
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[An] admirable collection. . For anyone interested in what Wogan-Browne calls "the historiography of female community", nuns' libraries and literacy, and Barking abbey itself, this first-class collection of essays is essential reading. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW

Essays on the texts produced at Barking Abbey - one of the most important centres for writings in the Middle Ages.

JENNIFER N. BROWN is Professor of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College. JENNIFER N. BROWN is Professor of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College. KAY BRAINERD SLOCUM is Emerita Professor at Capital University, Ohio. THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA.

Introduction: Barking's Lives, the Abbey and its Abbesses
Barking's Monastic School, Late Seventh to Early Twelfth Century: History, Saint Making and Literary Culture - Stephanie Hollis
The Saint-Maker and the Saint: Hildelith Creates Ethelburg - Lisa M.C. Weston
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Translation Ceremony for Saints Ethelburg, Hildelith, and Wulfhild - Kay Slocum
'The Ladies Have Made Me Quite Fat': Authors and Patrons at Barking Abbey - Thomas O'Donnell
'Sun num n'i vult dire a ore': Identity Matters at Barking Abbey - Delbert W. Russell
'Ce qu'ens li trovat, eut en sei': On the Equal Chastity of Queen Edith and King Edward in the Nun of Barking's La Vie d'Edouard Le Confesseur - Thelma Fenster
Body, Gender, and Nation in the Lives of Edward the Confessor - Jennifer N. Brown
Clemence and Catherine: The Life of St Catherine in its Norman and Anglo-Norman Context - Diane Auslander
Cicero, Aelred and Guernes: The Politics of Love in Clemence of Barking's Catherine - Donna Alfano Bussell
The Authority of Diversity: Communal Patronage in Le Gracial - Emma Berat
Keeping Body and Soul Together: The Charge to the Barking Cellaress - Alexandra Barratt
Rhythmic Liturgy, Embodiment and Female Authority in Barking's Easter Plays - Jill Stevenson
Liturgy as the Site of Creative Engagement: Contributions of the Nuns of Barking - Anne Bagnall Yardley
Afterword: Barking and the Historiography of Female Community - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.11.2012
Co-Autor Alexandra Barratt, Anne Bagnall Yardley, Delbert W Russell
Zusatzinfo 1 b/w illus.
Verlagsort York
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 1 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-903153-43-3 / 1903153433
ISBN-13 978-1-903153-43-7 / 9781903153437
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