Christina of Markyate (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Fanous, Samuel; Leyser, Henrietta

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser present a vivid interdisciplinary study devoted to the life, work and extant vita of Christina of Markyate, which draws on research from a wide range of disciplines. This fascinating and comprehensive collection surveys the life of an extraordinary medieval woman. Christina of Markyate made a vow of chastity at an early age, against the wishes of her parents who intended her to marry. When forced into wedlock, she fled in disguise and went into hiding, receiving refuge in a network of hermitages. Christina became a religious recluse and eventually founded a priory of nuns attached to St. Albans.
Beautifully illustrated, this book provides students who regularly encounter Christina with a research compendium from which to begin their studies, and introduces Christina to a wider audience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134393930
• Artikelnr.: 43071114

Autorenporträt

Samuel Fanous is a tutor and lecturer in the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford. Henrietta Leyser is a tutor at St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, and the author of Medieval Women.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Notes on contributors
A Note on the Life
Preface
1 Christina of Markyate: the introduction
2 Christina of Markyate: the literary background
3 St Albans and women's monasticism: lives and their foundations in Christina's world
4 Christina of Markyate and the double crown
5 The unknown pilgrim: drama and romance in the Life of Christina of Markyate
6 The loves of Christina of Markyate
7 The marriages of Christina of Markyate
8 Ranulf Flambard and Christina of Markyate
9 Dining at Markyate with Lady Christina
10 Alternative intimacies: men
women and spiritual direction in the twelfth century
11 Christina's tempting: sexual desire and women's sanctity
12 The St Albans Psalter: the abbot and the anchoress
13 The Life of St Alexis
475-1125
14 Christina of Markyate and the hermits and anchorites of England
List of sites and hermits
Select bibliography
Index of names and places