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Author : Arthur Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Cambridge (England)
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR59947810
Author : E. T. Dailey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197656129
A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced her position, received consecration as a deaconess, and took monastic vows. A religious leader, who acquired a fragment of the Cross of the Crucifixion for her convent of Holy Cross in Poitiers. And, lastly, a saint, remembered for her healings, exorcisms, and extreme self-mortification. Such was Radegund, a woman who lived through an era defined by headlong change. Honored as a "mother" by subsequent Frankish kings and as a holy woman by her nuns and devotees, Radegund enjoyed a reputation for righteousness that spread throughout the whole of medieval Europe, with later queens emulating her pious achievements. For generations, she defined medieval queenship, female monastic practice, and the expectations associated with holy women. Today, she is often envisioned as a pan-European saint. Radegund presents a new interpretation of this remarkable woman, examining her vibrant life and legacy. E. T. Dailey shows how she succeeded in establishing a place for herself within this difficult and dangerous world, despite the trials she faced. He also demonstrates how Radegund achieved a position of prominence as a woman in a foreign land without resorting to the violence and intrigue that characterized the lives of other prominent women during this period. Based on a wealth of English, French, and German scholarship, this book will equip experts and lay readers with a concise, authoritative, and accessible portrait of Radegund.
Author : Arthur Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11850241
Author : Karen Cherewatuk,Ulrike Wiethaus
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0812214374
Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre explores women's contributions to letter writing in Western Europe from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries. The essays represent the first attempt to chart medieval women's achievements in epistolarity, and the contributors to this volume situate the women writers in a solidly historical context and employ a variety of feminist approaches. Both religious and secular writers are discussed, including Radegund, Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, Catherine of Siena, the women of the Paston family, Christine de Pizan, and Maria de Hout.
Author : John Kitchen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195353617
Medieval lives of female saints have attracted wide attention in recent years. Some scholars have argued that such texts reveal a distinctive form of female sanctity which only female hagiographers managed to properly articulate, and important writings have been attributed to female authors on that assumption. In this revisionist work, John Kitchen tests such claims through a close examination of several texts--lives of both male and female saints, by authors of both sexes--from sixth century France. He argues that sometimes the "authentic voice" of the female writer or saint sounds emphatically male. This study gives examples of how both male and female authors sometimes depicted holy women talking, acting, or even dressing like their male counterparts. Ultimately, the author aims to cast doubt on the assumption that male authors were ignorant of or hostile toward certain--specifically female--concerns. By the same token, Kitchen's work raises serious methodological problems with the gender approach to the hagiographic literature of the early Middle Ages.
Author : Mary-Ann Stouck
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442600942
"Mary-Ann Stouck's short reader stands apart in offering an abbreviated but judicious selection of saints' lives perfectly suited as a brief introduction. It fills a particular need with an elegant sufficiency." - Cynthia J. Hahn, Hunter College and the Graduate Center-CUNY
Author : Frederick Brittain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000213455
Author : Lynda L. Coon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812201673
Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lynda Coon unpacks these paradoxical representations to reveal the construction and circumscription of women's roles in the early Christian centuries. Coon discerns three distinct paradigms for female sanctity in saints' lives and patristic and monastic writings. Women are recurrently figured as repentant desert hermits, wealthy widows, or cloistered ascetic nuns, and biblical discourse informs the narrative content, rhetorical strategies, and symbolic meanings of these texts in complex and multivalent ways. If hagiographers made their women saints walk on water, resurrect the dead, or consecrate the Eucharist, they also curbed the power of women by teaching that the daughters of Eve must make their bodies impenetrable through militant chastity or spiritual exile and must eradicate self-indulgence through ascetic attire or philanthropy. The windows the sacred fiction of holy women open on the past are far from transparent; driven by both literary invention and moral imperative, the stories they tell helped shape Western gender constructs that have survived into modern times.
Author : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2033 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351681582
First published in 2006, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE. This reference work provides a comprehensive understanding of many aspects of medieval women and gender, such as art, economics, law, literature, sexuality, politics, philosophy and religion, as well as the daily lives of ordinary women. Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Additional up-to-date bibliographies have been included for the 2016 reprint. Written by renowned international scholars and easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be a valuable resource on women in Medieval Europe.
Author : M. Spongberg,A. Curthoys,B. Caine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781349724680
This A-Z reference work provides the first comprehensive reference guide to the wide range of historical writing with which women have been involved, particularly since the Renaissance. The Companion covers biographical writing, travelogue and historical fictions, broadening the concept of history to include the forms of writing with which women have historically engaged. The focus is on women writing in English internationally, but historical and historiographical traditions from beyond the English-speaking world are also examined. Brief biographies of individual writers are included.
Author : Lina Eckenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Convents
ISBN : HARVARD:32044048296560
Ch. 1 Introduction\Section 1: The Borderland Heathendom and Christianity\Section 2: The Tribal goddess as a Christian Saint\Section 3: Further Peculiarities of this Type of Saint\Ch. 2 Covents Among the Franks, A.D. 550-650\Section 1: At the Franish Invasion\Section 2: St. Radegund and the Nunnery at Poitiers\Section 3: The Revolt of the Nuns at Poitiers, Covent Life in the North\Ch. 3 Convents Among the Anglo-Saxon, A.D. 630-730\Section 1: Early Houses of Kent\Section 2: The Monastery at Whitby\Section 3: Ely and the Influence of Bishop Wilfrith\Section 4: Houses in Mercia and in the South\Ch. 4 Anglo-Saxon Nuns in Connection with Boniface\Section 1 : The Women Corresponding with Boniface\Section 2: Anglo-Saxon Nuns Abroad\Ch.5 Convents in Saxon Lands Between A.D. 800-1000\Section 1: Women's Convents in Saxony\Section 2: Early History of Gandersheim\Section 3: The Nun Hrotsvith and her Writings.\Ch. 6 The Monastic Revival of the Middle Ages\Section 1: The New Monastic Orders\Section 2: Benedictine Convents in the Twelfth Century\Section 3: The Order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham\Ch. 7 Art Industries in the Nunery\Section 1: Art industires Generaly\Section 2: Herrad and the Garden of Delights\Ch. 8 Prophecy and Philanthropy\Section 1. St. Hildegard of Bingen and St. Elisabeth of Schonau\Section 2: Charity and Philanthropy\Ch. 9 Early Mystic Literature\Section 1: Mystic Writings for Women in England\Section 2: The convent of Helfta and its Literay Nuns.\Ch. 10 Some Aspects of the Convent in England During the Later Middle Ages\Section 1: The External Relations of the Convent\Section 2: The Internal Arrangements of the Convent\Section 3: the Foundation and Internal Arrangements of Sion\Ch. 11 Monastic Reform Previous to the Reformation\Section 1: Visitations of Nunneries in England\Section 2: Reforms in Germany\Ch. 12 The dissolution\Section 1: The Dissolution in England\Section 2: The Memoir of Charitas Pirckheimer\Conclusion.
Author : Jerome Kroll,Bernard Bachrach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134297672
A fascinating collaboration between a medieval historian and a professor of psychiatry, this enthralling book applies modern biological and psychological research findings to the lives of medieval mystics and ascetics. Drawing upon a database of over 1,400 medieval holy persons and in-depth studies of individual saints, this illuminating study examines the relationship between medieval mystical experiences, the religious practices of mortification; laceration of the flesh, sleep deprivation and extreme starvation, and how these actions produced altered states of consciousness and brain function in the heroic ascetics. Examining and disputing much contemporary writing about the political and gender motivations in the medieval quest for a closeness with God, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in medieval religion or the effects of self-injurious behaviour on the mind.
Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791446204
Presents stories and commentaries on women saints from the Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions.
Author : Pamela C. Berger
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988-02-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807067237
Recounts the story of the grain protectress, an image that has persisted from the ancient Near East to the classical world and still survives in folksongs and village celebrations today.
Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472116836
In this study, Michael Roberts illuminates the poetry of the 6th century bishop and poet Venantius Fortunatus.