Women, the Book, and the Godly: Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda's Conference, 1993 - Volume I

Papers on women and religion in the middle ages, drawn from archive, manuscipt and early printed sources.

List of contents

`The Limits of Bible Study for Medieval Women'. - Alcuin Blamires
`The Absent Penitent: The Cure of Women's Souls and Confessors' Manuals in Thirteenth-Century England'. - Jacqueline Murray
``For hereby I hope to rouse some to piety': Books of Sisters from Convents and Sister-Houses Associated with the Devotio Moderna in the Low Countries'.the Low Countries'. - Wybren Scheepsma
`Passing the Book: Testamentary Transmission of Religious Literature To and By Women in England 1350-1500'. -
`Women and Texts in Languedocian Catharism'. - Rosalynn Voaden
``Cry Out and Write': Mysticism and the Struggle for Authority'. - Judith Forshaw, Book Reviews
`Mechthild von Magdeburg: Her Creativity and her Audience'. - Elizabeth A Andersen
`Catherine of Siena: Rewriting Female Holy Authority'. - F Thomas Luongo
``To My Dearest Sister': Bede and the Educated Woman'. - Benedicta Ward
``Sharpen your mind with the whetstone of books': The Female Recluse as Reader in Goscelin's `Liber Confortatorious', Aelred of Rievalx's `De Institutione Inclusarum' and the `Ancrene Wisse''.Rievalx's `De Institutione Inclusarum' and the `Ancren - Gopa Roy
`Patronage Engendered: How Goscelin Allayed the Concerns of Nuns' Discriminatory Publics'. - Georges Whalen
``Ancrene Wisse and De Wohunge of Ure Lauerd': The Thirteenth- Century Female Reader and the Lover-Knight'. - Catherine Innes-Parker
`Rewriting the Fall: Julian of Norwich and the `Chevalier des Dames''. - Helen Phillips
`Literacy and the Gender Gap in the Late Middle Ages: Women and Reading in Lollard Communities'. - Shannon McSheffrey
`Women and Texts in Languedocian Catharism'. - Peter Biller

Product details

• Authors: Alcuin Blamires, Catherine Innes Parker, Lesley Smith, Jane H.M. Taylor, Benedicta Ward
• Assisted by: Lesley Smith (Editor), Lesley J. Smith (Editor), Jane H M Taylor (Editor), Jane H. M. Taylor (Editor), Jane H.M. Taylor (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1995
• EAN: 9780859914208
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-420-8
• No. of pages: 205
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 467 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Geschichte der Religion, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Religion - Church Life