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Women’s Lives presents essays on the ways in which the lives and voices of women permeated medieval literature and culture. The ubiquity of women amongst the medieval canon provides an opportunity for considering a different sphere of medieval culture and power that is frequently not given the attention it requires. The reception and use of female figures from this period has proven influential as subjects in literary, political, and social writings; the lives of medieval women may be read as models of positive transgression, and their representation and reception make powerful arguments for equality, agency and authority on behalf of the writers who employed them. The volume includes essays on well-known medieval women, such as Hildegard of Bingen and Teresa of Cartagena, as well as women less-known to scholars of the European Middle Ages, such as Al-Kāhina and Liang Hongyu. Each essay is directly related to the work of Elizabeth Petroff, a scholar of Medieval Women Mystics who helped recover texts written by medieval women.

Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Nahir I. Otaño Gracia and Daniel Armenti
I Elizabeth Petroff and Mysticism
1 Women and Mysticism in the Medieval World
Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff
2 Male Confessors and Female Penitents: Possibilities for Dialogue
Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff
II Self-Representation
3 The Empowerment of Teresa de Cartagena through Her Patroness Juana de Mendoza
Borja de Cossío
4 Hildegardian Remixes: Hildegard von Bingen and the Appropriation of Auctoritas
Andrés Amitai Wilson
5 Language and Trance Theatre
Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida
III Reception
6 Smuggled Balsam and the Inscription of Memory: Hugeberc von Hildesheim and the Pilgrimage of Saint Willibald
Susan Signe Morrison
7 Gender, Genre and Collaboration in the Life of Ida of Nivelles
Barbara Zimbalist
8 History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman Warrior
Lan Dong
9 A Woman Mystic in Pre-Islamic North Africa: Al Kāhina in the Futūḥ Miṣr
Denise K. Filios
IV Appropriation
10 When Romance and Hagiography Meet: Inventing Saintly Women in The South English Legendary
Meriem Pagès
11 Selfless Acts of Salvation as Self-Glorification: Saving the Prostitute in Hrotsvith’s Plays
Madalina Meirosu
12 Liturgy and the Performance of the Mystical Self
Claire Taylor Jones

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Medieval

Histoire

History

Europe

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	01 février 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781786838353
Langue	English

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RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Women’s Lives
Series Editors
Denis Renevey (Université de Lausanne)
Diane Watt (University of Surrey)
Editorial Board
Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London)
Jean- Claude Schmitt (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Fiona Somerset (Duke University)
Christiania Whitehead (University of Warwick)
RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Women’s Lives
Self-Representation, Reception and Appropriation in the Middle Ages
Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Petroff
edited by
NAHIR I. OTAÑO GRACIA AND DANIEL ARMENTI
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C ONTENTS
Series Editors’ Preface
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Nahir I. Otaño Gracia and Daniel Armenti
I ELIZABETH PETROFF AND MYSTICISM
1 Women and Mysticism in the Medieval World
Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff
2 Male Confessors and Female Penitents: Possibilities for Dialogue
Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff
II SELF-REPRESENTATION
3 The Empowerment of Teresa de Cartagena through Her Patroness
Juana de Mendoza Borja de Cossío
4 Hildegardian Remixes: Hildegard von Bingen and the Appropriation of Auctoritas
Andrés Amitai Wilson
5 Language and Trance Theatre
Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida
III RECEPTION
6 Smuggled Balsam and the Inscription of Memory: Hugeberc von Hildesheim and the Pilgrimage of Saint Willibald
Susan Signe Morrison
7 Gender, Genre and Collaboration in the Life of Ida of Nivelles
Barbara Zimbalist
8 History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman Warrior
Lan Dong
9 A Woman Mystic in Pre-Islamic North Africa: Al Kāhina in the Futūḥ Miṣr
Denise K. Filios
IV APPROPRIATION
10 When Romance and Hagiography Meet: Inventing Saintly Women in The South English Legendary
Meriem Pagès
11 Selfless Acts of Salvation as Self-Glorification: Saving the Prostitute in Hrotsvith’s Plays
Madalina Meirosu
12 Liturgy and the Performance of the Mystical Self
Claire Taylor Jones
S ERIES E DITORS ’ P REFACE
Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages aims to explore the interface between medieval religion and culture, with as broad an understanding of those terms as possible. It puts to the forefront studies which engage with works that significantly contributed to the shaping of medieval culture. However, it also gives attention to studies dealing with works that reflect and highlight aspects of medieval culture that have been neglected in the past by scholars of the medieval disciplines. For example, devotional works and the practice they infer illuminate our understanding of the medieval subject and its culture in remarkable ways, while studies of the material space designed and inhabited by medieval subjects yield new evidence on the period and the people who shaped it and lived in it. In the larger field of religion and culture, we also want to explore further the roles played by women as authors, readers and owners of books, thereby defining them more precisely as actors in the cultural field. The series as a whole investigates the European Middle Ages, from c .500 to c .1500. Our aim is to explore medieval religion and culture with the tools belonging to such disciplines as, among others, art history, philosophy, theology, history, musicology, the history of medicine and literature. In particular, we would like to promote interdisciplinary studies, as we believe strongly that our modern understanding of the term applies fascinatingly well to a cultural period marked by a less tight confinement and categorization of its disciplines than the modern period. However, our only criterion is academic excellence, with the belief that the use of a large diversity of critical tools and theoretical approaches enables a deeper understanding of medieval culture. We want the series to reflect this diversity, as we believe that, as a collection of outstanding contributions, it offers a more subtle representation of a period that is marked by paradoxes and contradictions and which necessarily reflects diversity and difference, however difficult it may sometimes have proved for medieval culture to accept these notions.
L IST OF I LLUSTRATIONS
1 Wu Youru’s (fl. nineteenth century) drawing that portrays the battle scene in which Lady Liang beats the drum on a ship. From Wu Youru, Wu Youru Huabao (Shanghai: Biyuan huishe, c .1909), no. pag.
N OTES ON C ONTRIBUTORS
Daniel Armenti is a Visiting Lecturer in Italian at the College of the Holy Cross. His research focuses on the reception of classical literature during the Middle Ages and on how literary representations of sexual and gendered violence contributed to the institutionalisation of rape culture in the Middle Ages. His current project explores the expression of traumatic experience and the challenges that arise in writing and voicing traumatic events.
Borja de Cossío is a Professor of Practice at Tulane University. He received a BA in English Philology and an MA in Comparative Literature from the Universidad de Oviedo, and another MA and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a specialisation in Medieval and Golden Age Literature. His main areas of expertise include early modern visionaries before Saint Teresa, the adaptation of the Spanish Baroque in early seventeenth-century English poetry, and the digital humanities. Among his publications is a digital edition of El libro de la oración de Sor María de Santo Domingo for the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, and he has also published three different digital editions for Catálogo de Santas Vivas at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid: eighteenth-century hagiographies on Sor María de Santo Domingo and her sister María de la Asunción, and forty-three lives of women taken from Crónica de la Santa Provincia de Granada (1683). He is currently working on another edition of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz written by her confessor, Diego de Calleja in 1693. He has also published work on Teresa de Cartagena, Sor María de Santo Domingo and Richard Crashaw. Before coming to Tulane, he taught at UMass Amherst and Colorado College.
Lan Dong is Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences (2017–20) at the University of Illinois Springfield. She teaches Asian American literature, world literature, comics and graphic narratives, and children’s and young adult literature. She has published six books as either author or editor and has published numerous journal articles, book chapters and reference essays on Asian American literature, comics and graphic narratives, and children’s and young adult literature.
Denise K. Filios is an Associate Professor in the in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Iberian Lyric . Her teaching and research interests include medieval Spanish literature, women in literature and performance, and North African–Spanish cultural contacts from 711 to the present. Her current book project examines stories about the conquest of Iberia in early Islamic and Hispano-Latin historiography.
Claire Taylor Jones is Associate Professor of German at the University of Notre Dame. Her publications include the monograph Ruling the Spirit: Women, Liturgy, and Dominican Reform in Late Medieval Germany (Penn Press, 2018) and the book-length translation Women’s History in the Age of Reformation: Johannes Meyer’s Chronicle of the Dominican Observance (PIMS, 2019).
Madalina Meirosu specialises in comparative approaches to nineteenth-century political and social thought in German literature. She also has expertise in contemporary migration literature, the Medical Humanities, and Women and Gender Studies. Her current research project explores the political undertones of nineteenth-century literature featuring artificial humanoids.
Susan Signe Morrison , Texas State University System Regents’ Professor and University Distinguished Professor of English at Texas State University, specialises in comparative medieval literature, gender and cultural studies, and ecocriticism. She has written on topics ranging from women pilgrims in the Middle Ages and Geoffrey Chaucer’s use of excrement to waste as material and metaphoric agent in our world; her award-winning book, A Medieval Woman’s Companion: Women’s Lives in the European Middle Ages , has been translated into German. Creative works express her commitment to making women’s lives – all too often neglected historically – present to the reader as vibrant agents of change. Her novel, Grendel’s Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife , tells the tale of the Old En