Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women [Hardcover]

Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses of memory.Preface; C.Glenn Introduction; M.Cotter-Lynch  B.Herzog Nuns on Parade: Memorializing Women in Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa; H.Scheck Mnemonic Sanctity and the Ladder of Reading: Notker's 'In Natale Sanctarum Feminarum'; M.Cotter-Lynch Envisioning a Saint: Visions in the Miracles of Saint Margaret of Scotland; C.Keene Secret Designs/Public Shapes: Ekphrastic Tensions in Hildegard's Scivias; C.Barbetti Imitating the Imagined: Clemence of Barking's Life of St. Catherine; B.Zimbalist Memory, Identity and Women's Representation in the Portuguese reception of Vitae Patrum: Winning a Name; A.M.Machado 'In mei memoriam facietis': Remembering Ritual and Refiguring 'Woman' in Gertrud the Great of Helfta's Exercitia spiritualia; E.Johnson Makinga Place: Imitatio Mariae in Julian of Norwich's Self-Construction; E.Hanson Portrait of a Holy Life: Mnemonic Inventiveness in The Book of Margery Kempe; B.HerzogCheryl Glenn, Pennsylvania State UniversityHelene Scheck, State University of New York at AlbanyMargaret Cotter-Lynch, Southeastern Oklahoma State UniversityCatherine KeeneClaire BarbettiBarbara Zimbalist, University of California-DavisAna Maria Machado, University of CoimbraElla Johnson, St. Bernard's School of Theology and MinistryElissa Hansen, University of MinnesotaBrad Herzog, Saginaw Valley State University