Saints, scholars, and politicians : Gender as a tool in medieval studies. Festschrift in honour of Anneke Mulder-Bakker on the occasion of her sixty-fifth birthday /

Main Author: Dijk, Mathilde van
Other Authors: Nip, Renee
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Turnhout: Brepols, 2005
Series:Medieval Church Studies ; 15
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mathilde van Dijk
  • The virgin as social icon: perspectives from late antiquity / Kate Cooper
  • "Tleven ons heren Jhesu Christi": female readers and Dutch devotional literature in the fifteenth century / Geert Warnar
  • Johannes Hertenstainʹs translation (1425) of Grimlaicusʹ Rule for the anchoresses at Steinertobel near St. Gallen / Gabriela Signori
  • ʹIgnorantia est mater omnium malorumʹ: the validation of knowledge and the office of preaching in late medieval female Franciscan communities / Bert Roest
  • Womenʹs formal and informal traditions of biblical knowledge in Anglo-Norman England / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
  • Gender and the archive: the preservation of charters in early medieval communities of religious women / Katrinette Bodarwe
  • Henry Mande: the making of a male visionary in ʹDevotio modernaʹ / Mathilde van Dijk
  • The meanings of hair in the Anglo-Norman world: masculinity, reform, and national identity / Pauline Stafford
  • Visions and schism politics in the twelfth century: Hildegard of Bingen, John of Salisbury, and Elisabeth of Scho?nau / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
  • Conflicting roles: Jacqueline of Bavaria (d. 1436), countess and wife / Rene?e Nip
  • The metamorphosis of women? Autobiography from Margery Kempe to Martha Moulsworth / Helen Wilcox
  • Gender and religious autobiography between the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation: typologies and examples / Gabriella Zarri.