Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture (EPDF) von Jennifer N Brown

[An] admirable collection. . For anyone interested in what Wogan-Browne calls "the historiography of female community", nuns' libraries and literacy, and Barking abbey itself, this first-class collection of essays is essential reading. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW

Essays on the texts produced at Barking Abbey - one of the most important centres for writings in the Middle Ages.

Introduction: Barking's Lives, the Abbey and its Abbesses
Barking's Monastic School, Late Seventh to Early Twelfth Century: History, Saint Making and Literary Culture - Stephanie Hollis
The Saint-Maker and the Saint: Hildelith Creates Ethelburg - Lisa M.C. Weston
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Translation Ceremony for Saints Ethelburg, Hildelith, and Wulfhild - Kay Slocum
'The Ladies Have Made Me Quite Fat': Authors and Patrons at Barking Abbey - Thomas O'Donnell
'Sun num n'i vult dire a ore': Identity Matters at Barking Abbey - Delbert W. Russell
'Ce qu'ens li trovat, eut en sei': On the Equal Chastity of Queen Edith and King Edward in the Nun of Barking'sLa Vie d'Edouard Le Confesseur - Thelma Fenster
Body, Gender, and Nation in the Lives of Edward the Confessor - Jennifer N. Brown
Clemence and Catherine: TheLife of St Catherine in its Norman and Anglo-Norman Context - Diane Auslander
Cicero, Aelred and Guernes: The Politics of Love in Clemence of Barking'sCatherine - Donna Alfano Bussell
The Authority of Diversity: Communal Patronage inLe Gracial - Emma Berat
Keeping Body and Soul Together:The Charge to the Barking Cellaress - Alexandra Barratt
Rhythmic Liturgy, Embodiment and Female Authority in Barking's Easter Plays - Jill Stevenson
Liturgy as the Site of Creative Engagement: Contributions of the Nuns of Barking - Anne Bagnall Yardley
Afterword: Barking and the Historiography of Female Community - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
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