Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe
Gender, Power, Patronage and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom
Biographical note
Katherine Allen Smith, Ph.D. in History (NYU, 2004), is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound. She has published articles on medieval monastic communities and their saints, relics, and images. Her current project is a study of representations of war in monastic texts of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Scott Wells, Ph.D. in History (NYU, 2003), is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles. He is currently completing a book entitled From Chronicling Monks to Prophesying Nuns: The Search for History's Design in Medieval Germany, ca. 970-1180.
Scott Wells, Ph.D. in History (NYU, 2003), is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles. He is currently completing a book entitled From Chronicling Monks to Prophesying Nuns: The Search for History's Design in Medieval Germany, ca. 970-1180.
Readership
All those interested in hagiography, monasticism, Church history of the Church, gender and women's studies, Jewish Christian relations, art history and manuscript studies, comparative religion, and the European Middle Ages.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Preface: Gender, Power, and Patronage – The Impact of Penelope D. Johnson on Medieval Studies, Katherine Allen Smith & Scott Wells
List of Contributors
Introduction: Penelope D. Johnson, the Boswell Thesis, and Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe, Katherine Allen Smith & Scott Wells
PART I. SHAPING IDENTITY THROUGH SACRED SPACES AND TEXTS
1. Living with a Saint: Monastic Identity, Community, and the Ideal of Asceticism in the Life of an Irish Saint, Diane Peters Auslander
2. A Tale of Two Dioceses: Prologues as Letters in the Vitae Authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpré, Christina Roukis-Stern
3. “Within the Walls of Paradise”: Space and Community in the Vita of Umiliana de’ Cerchi (1219-1246), Anne M. Schuchman
4. Architectural Mimesis and Historical Memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, Katherine Allen Smith
5. Holy Women and the Needle Arts: Piety, Devotion, and Stitching the Sacred, ca. 500-1150, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg
PART II. PARTNERSHIPS AND DEVOTIONS ACROSS THE GENDER DIVIDE
6. The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in East Francia: The Case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950, Scott Wells
7. Noble Women’s Power as Reflected in the Foundations of Cistercian Houses for Nuns in Thirteenth-Century Northern France: Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey, Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres, Constance Hoffman Berman
8. “Inseparable Companions”: Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise, Susan Valentine
9. Book, Body, and the Construction of the Self in the Taymouth Hours, Kathryn A. Smith
PART III. BLOOD, EMBODIMENT, AND DEFINING SEPARATION
10. Abbot Erluin’s Blindness: The Monastic Implications of Violent Loss of Sight, Susan Wade
11. Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Château-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault, Elizabeth A. R. Brown
12. The Matter of Others: Menstrual Blood and Uncontrolled Semen in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalists’ Polemic against Christians, “Bad” Jews, and Muslims, Alexandra Cuffel
General Index
Index of Manuscripts
Preface: Gender, Power, and Patronage – The Impact of Penelope D. Johnson on Medieval Studies, Katherine Allen Smith & Scott Wells
List of Contributors
Introduction: Penelope D. Johnson, the Boswell Thesis, and Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe, Katherine Allen Smith & Scott Wells
PART I. SHAPING IDENTITY THROUGH SACRED SPACES AND TEXTS
1. Living with a Saint: Monastic Identity, Community, and the Ideal of Asceticism in the Life of an Irish Saint, Diane Peters Auslander
2. A Tale of Two Dioceses: Prologues as Letters in the Vitae Authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpré, Christina Roukis-Stern
3. “Within the Walls of Paradise”: Space and Community in the Vita of Umiliana de’ Cerchi (1219-1246), Anne M. Schuchman
4. Architectural Mimesis and Historical Memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, Katherine Allen Smith
5. Holy Women and the Needle Arts: Piety, Devotion, and Stitching the Sacred, ca. 500-1150, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg
PART II. PARTNERSHIPS AND DEVOTIONS ACROSS THE GENDER DIVIDE
6. The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in East Francia: The Case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950, Scott Wells
7. Noble Women’s Power as Reflected in the Foundations of Cistercian Houses for Nuns in Thirteenth-Century Northern France: Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey, Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres, Constance Hoffman Berman
8. “Inseparable Companions”: Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise, Susan Valentine
9. Book, Body, and the Construction of the Self in the Taymouth Hours, Kathryn A. Smith
PART III. BLOOD, EMBODIMENT, AND DEFINING SEPARATION
10. Abbot Erluin’s Blindness: The Monastic Implications of Violent Loss of Sight, Susan Wade
11. Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Château-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault, Elizabeth A. R. Brown
12. The Matter of Others: Menstrual Blood and Uncontrolled Semen in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalists’ Polemic against Christians, “Bad” Jews, and Muslims, Alexandra Cuffel
General Index
Index of Manuscripts
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