Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture (eBook, PDF)

Authorship and Authority in a Female Community
Redaktion: Brown, Jennifer N; Bussell, Donna Alfano

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Produktbeschreibung

[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.

Barking Abbey (founded c. 666) is hugely significant for those studying the literary production by and patronage of medieval women. It had one of the largest libraries of any English nunnery, and a history of women's education from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Dissolution; it was also the home of women writers of Latin and Anglo-Norman works, as well as of many Middle English manuscript books.
The essays in this volume map its literary history, offering a wide-ranging examination of its liturgical, historio-hagiographical, devotional, doctrinal, and administrative texts, with a particular focus on the important hagiographies produced there during the twelfth century. It thusmakes a major contribution to the literary and cultural history of medieval England and a rich resource for the teaching of women's texts.

Professor JENNIFER N. BROWN teaches at Marymount Manhattan College; Professor DONNA ALFANO BUSSELL teaches at University of Illinois-Springfield.

Contributors: Diane Auslander, Alexandra Barratt, Emma Bérat, Jennifer N. Brown, Donna A. Bussell, Thelma Fenster, Stephanie Hollis, Thomas O'Donnell, Delbert Russell, Jill Stevenson, Kay Slocum, Lisa Weston, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Anne B. Yardley

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782040507
• Artikelnr.: 56163222

Autorenporträt

Jennifer N. Brown, Donna Alfano Bussell

Inhaltsangabe

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