Gendered Voices Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters

Name: Gendered Voices Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters
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ISBN: 9780812216875

ISBN-10: 0812216873

ISBN-13: 9780812216875

Edition: 1999

Authors: Catherine M. Mooney, Caroline Walker Bynum, Ruth Mazo Karras

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"These studies . . . not only illuminate the past with a fierce and probing light but also raise, with nuance and power, fundamental issues of interpretation and method."--from the Foreword by Caroline Walker Bynum Female saints, mystics, and visionaries have been much studied in recent years. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to the ways in which their experiences and voices were mediated by the men who often composed their vitae, served as their editors and scribes, or otherwise encouraged, protected, and collaborated with the women in their writing projects. What strategies can be employed to discern and distinguish the voices of these high and late medieval women from…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 6/3/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Caroline Walker Bynum is University Professor at Columbia University. She is the author of Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336, and Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Body in Medieval Religion (Zone Books, 1991).



Foreword



List of Abbreviations



Voice, Gender, and the Portrayal of Sanctity




Hildegard and Her Hagiographers: The Remaking of Female Sainthood




Holy Woman or Unworthy Vessel? The Representations of Elisabeth of Schonau




Imitatio Christi or Imitatio Mariae? Clare of Assisi and Her Interpreters




Inside Out: Beatrice of Nazareth and Her Hagiographer




A Marriage and Its Observer: Christine of Stommeln, the Heavenly Bridegroom, and Friar Peter of Dacia




Henry Suso and Elsbeth Stagel: Was the Vita a Cooperative Effort?




Mystical Death, Bodily Death: Catherine of Siena and Raymond of Capua on the Mystic's Encounter with God




Authorizing a Life: The Collaboration of Dorothea of Montau and John Marienwerder



Notes


The Saints and Their Interpreters: Selected Primary Sources in Original Languages


Contributors


Index of Modern Authors


General Index


Acknowledgments