CATE GUNN is an independent scholar who has written on thirteenth-century anchoritic and pastoral literature. LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. NAOË KUKITA YOSHIKAWA is Professor Emerita of Medieval English Literature at Shizuoka University, and Research Fellow at the Center for Medieval English Literary Text Studies, Meiji University, Japan. JENNIFER N. BROWN is Professor of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College. KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON is Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame. ANNIE SUTHERLAND is Associate Professor, University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in Old and Middle English, Somerville College. NICHOLAS WATSON teaches English at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval English and North European literature, intellectual history, visionary writing and the role of the written vernacular.

Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages Giving Voice to Silence. Essays in Honour of Catherine Innes-Parker

Gunn Cate McAvoy Liz Herbert Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita

Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk

Gunn Cate McAvoy Liz Herbert Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita

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This collection is of value both for its intellectual rigor and consistency and its instructional possibilities. For graduate students in history and literature, the essays offer a master class in the scholarly method, and the number of essays devoted in whole or in part to the Ancrene Wisse makes those suitable for an undergraduate class on medieval devotional writing.

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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.

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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.

Preface: Tributes to Catherine Innes-Parker by Shannon Murray and Anne Savage Introduction: Speaking of Past and Present: Giving Voice to Silence - CATE GUNN, LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY and NAOË KUKITA YOSHIKAWA PART I: THE WOOING GROUP: SILENCE AND ARTICULATION Voicing the Creed in On Lofsong of ure Louerde - ANNIE SUTHERLAND Breath Courting Silence in The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd - DENIS RENEVEY Of Loves Both Spoken and Silent: Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya and the Wooing Group - AYOUSH LAZIKANI PART II: DEVOTIONAL TEXTS AND THEIR INTERTEXTS Sourcing a Critical Edition of A Talkyng of the Loue of God - MARGARET HEALY-VARLEY Speaking beyond the Anchorhold in Richard Rolle's Form of Living - JENNIFER N. BROWN 'Speech is silver, silence gold': Enclosure and Silence in Late Medieval Texts for Religious Women - ANNE MOURON Arboreal Articulation: The Testimony of Trees in the Late-Medieval Religious Imaginary - LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY PART III: HEARING AND SPEAKING: UNCOVERING THE FEMALE READER Vernacular Textuality in Thirteenth-Century England: The Ancrene Wisse Group Recontextualized - NICHOLAS WATSON Not So Silent After All: Women Intellectuals and Readers in Medieval Oxford - KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON A Ladder for Sisters - MICHAEL SARGENT PART IV: MANUSCRIPTS SPEAKING ACROSS BORDERS Silence, Sources and Medieval Women: From Alien Bride to Spiritual Director - JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE Anchoritic Interplay between Jan van Ruusbroec's The Spiritual Espousals and its Contributions to The Chastising of God's Children - MICHELLE M. SAUER Cecily Neville's Devotional Library: Networks of Readers and Models of Female Piety - NAOË KUKITA YOSHIKAWA Envoi: 'Þis seli stilðe': Silence and Stillness in the Anchorhold: Lessons for the Modern World? - CATE GUNN Bibliography of the Writings of Catherine Innes-Parker Index Tabula in Memoriam

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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.

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