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

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Introduction

   • Margaret Cotter-Lynch, Brad Herzog

   Pages 1-11

3. Nuns on Parade: Memorializing Women in Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa

   • Helene Scheck

   Pages 13-38

4. Mnemonic Sanctity and the Ladder of Reading: Notker’s “in Natale Sanctarum Feminarum”

   • Margaret Cotter-Lynch

   Pages 39-56

5. Envisioning a Saint: Visions in the Miracles of Saint Margaret of Scotland

   • Catherine Keene

   Pages 57-79

6. Secret Designs/Public Shapes: Ekphrastic Tensions in Hildegard’s Scivias

   • Claire Barbetti

   Pages 81-104

7. Imitating the Imagined: Clemence of Barking’s Life of St. Catherine

   • Barbara Zimbalist

   Pages 105-134

8. Memory, Identity, and Women’s Representation in the Portuguese Reception of Vitae Patrum: Winning a Name

   • Ana Maria Machado

   Pages 135-164

9. “In Mei Memoriam Facietis”: Remembering Ritual and Refiguring “Woman” in Gertrud the Great of Helfta’s Exercitia Spiritualia

   • Ella Johnson

   Pages 165-186

10. Making a Place: Imitatio Mariae in Julian of Norwich’s Self-Construction

    • Elissa Hansen

    Pages 187-209

11. Portrait of a Holy Life: Mnemonic Inventiveness in the Book of Margery Kempe

    • Brad Herzog

    Pages 211-233

12. Back Matter

    Pages 235-264

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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.

• construction
• design
• Europe
• identity
• Medieval Literature
• memory
• Middle Ages
• miracle
• nature
• Scotland
• women

• Department of English, Humanities, and Languages, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, USA

  Margaret Cotter-Lynch

• Saginaw Valley State University, USA

  Brad Herzog

Cheryl Glenn, Pennsylvania State University Helene Scheck, State University of New York at Albany Margaret Cotter-Lynch, Southeastern Oklahoma State University Catherine Keene Claire Barbetti Barbara Zimbalist, University of California-Davis Ana Maria Machado, University of Coimbra Ella Johnson, St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry Elissa Hansen, University of Minnesota Brad Herzog, Saginaw Valley State University

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