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Nahir I. Otano Gracia, Daniel Armenti - Women's Lives, E-bok

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Women's Lives

Self-Representation, Reception and Appropriation in the Middle Ages

Av Nahir I. Otano Gracia, Daniel Armenti

Del i serien Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages

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Women’s Lives presents essays on the ways in which the lives and voices of women permeated medieval literature and culture. The ubiquity of women amongst the medieval canon provides an opportunity for considering a different sphere of medieval culture and power that is frequently not given the attention it requires. The reception and use of female figures from this period has proven influential as subjects in literary, political, and social writings; the lives of medieval women may be read as models of positive transgression, and their representation and reception make powerful arguments for equality, agency and authority on behalf of the writers who employed them. The volume includes essays on well-known medieval women, such as Hildegard of Bingen and Teresa of Cartagena, as well as women less-known to scholars of the European Middle Ages, such as Al-Kāhina and Liang Hongyu. Each essay is directly related to the work of Elizabeth Petroff, a scholar of Medieval Women Mystics who helped recover texts written by medieval women.
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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia is an assistant professor of English at the University of New Mexico, and a member at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her frameworks include the global North Atlantic – Britain, Iberia, and Scandinavia – and critical identity studies.Daniel Armenti works on medieval representations of gender and expressions of trauma. He is a visiting lecturer in Italian at the College of the Holy Cross.

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This volume in honor of Elizabeth Petroff presents an exciting array of work focused on medieval women, mostly mystics, from Asia, North Africa, and Europe, alongside the writings of Petroff herself. . . an apt tribute to Petroff's groundbreaking work as it covers a widespread of medieval women and topics related to their lives. Moreover, it expands on earlier studies of medieval women by going beyond European borders. It is gratifying to read work by scholars, many of whom studied under Petroff, who will extend research on medieval women in new directions in upcoming years.

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