Brown / Bussell Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture

Authorship and Authority in a Female Community
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-78204-050-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 350 Seiten

[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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Jennifer N

Bussell, Donna Alfano

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barratt, Alexandra

Yardley, Anne Bagnall

Russell, Delbert W

Auslander, Diane

Bussell, Donna Alfano

Berat, Emma

Brown, Jennifer N

Stevenson, Jill

Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn

Slocum, Kay Brainerd

Lisa M. Weston, Lisa M.

Hollis, Stephanie

Fenster, Thelma

O'Donnell, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Brown Jennifer N:
JENNIFER N. BROWN is Professor of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College.Brown Jennifer N:
JENNIFER N. BROWN is Professor of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College.O'Donnell Thomas:
THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA.