Writing Religious Women : Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England Hardback
Edited by Denis Reveney, Christiania Whitehead
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This ground breaking volume addresses the question of female spirituality within medieval theological and devotional writings by looking at texts in which women play a significant role, either as authors, recipients, or subjects, and suggests that these texts participate in the expression of 'female vernacular theology'.
The volume is organised around four main thematic interests: the influence of anchoritic spirituality upon later lay piety; Carthusian links with female spirituality; the representation of femininity in vernacular religious poetry; and the anchoritic, hagiographical and liturgical influences which underlie the textual representation of Margery Kempe.
Writing Religious Women provides critical access to several little-known texts which form interesting connections with Carthusian spirituality; it also resituates better-known texts within the context of vernacular textual practice and production from which they have often been detached.
This ground-breaking book is a sustained exploration of a fascinating period of cultural and religious history and contributes to the opening-up of a comparatively neglected area of medieval devotional practice.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2000
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- ISBN:9780708316429
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2000
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- ISBN:9780708316429