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Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages - (Gender in the Middle Ages) by Cate Gunn & Liz Herbert McAvoy & Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa

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  • Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker.
  • Author(s): Cate Gunn & Liz Herbert McAvoy & Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
  • 332 Pages
  • Literary Criticism, Medieval
  • Series Name: Gender in the Middle Ages

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Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker.

Silence was a much-lauded concept in the Middle Ages, particularly in the context of religious literature directed at women. Based on the Pauline prescription that women should neither preach nor teach, and should at all times keep speech to a minimum, the concept of silence lay at the forefront of many devotional texts, particularly those associated with various forms of women's religious enclosure. Following the example of the Virgin Mary, religious women were exhorted to speak seldom, and then only seriously and devoutly. However, as this volume shows, such gendered exhortations to silence were often more rhetorical than literal. The contributions range widely: they consider the English 'Wooing Group' texts and female-authored visionary writings from the Saxon nunnery of Helfta in the thirteenth century; works by Richard Rolle and the Dutch mystic Jan van Ruusbroec in the fourteenth century; Anglo-French treatises, and books housed in the library of the English noblewoman Cecily Neville in the fifteenth century; and the resonant poetics of women from non-Christian cultures. But all demonstrate the ways in which silence, rather than being a mere absence of speech, frequently comprised a form of gendered articulation and proto-feminist point of resistance. They thus provide an apt commemoration and celebration of the deeply innovative work of Catherine Innes-Parker (1956-2019), the respected feminist scholar and a pioneer of this important field of study.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .75 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.42 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 332
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: Medieval
Series Title: Gender in the Middle Ages
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Format: Hardcover
Author: Cate Gunn & Liz Herbert McAvoy & Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
Language: English
Street Date: November 7, 2023
TCIN: 1002216069
UPC: 9781843846628
Item Number (DPCI): 247-32-0557
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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