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

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Editors:
  1. Margaret Cotter-Lynch

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

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  2. Brad Herzog

    1. Saginaw Valley State University, USA

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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Margaret Cotter-Lynch

  • Saginaw Valley State University, USA

    Brad Herzog

About the editors

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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