Listen Daughter: The Speculum Virginum and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9781349633272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 306 str.

C. J. Mews; Constant J. Mews

Opis

The words 'Listen daughter' (Audi filia, from Psalm 44 in the Latin Vulgate) were frequently used in exhortations to religious women in the twelfth century.

Recenzje

'Constant Mews has contributed to, and drawn together, an excellent collection of articles which advances understanding of the Speculum virginum and of the learning, development and position of religious women in the Middle Ages.' - Rosemary Dunn, Parergon

Spis treści

Virginity, Theology, and Pedagogy in the Speculum virginum; C.J.Mews The Speculum virginum : The Testimony of the Manuscripts; J.Seyfarth Female Religious Life and the Cura Monialium in Hirsau Monasticism c. 1080-1150; J.Hotchin From Ecclesiology to Mariology: Patristic Traces and Innovation in the Speculum virginum; K.E.Power The Speculum virginum and the Audio-visual Poetics of Women's Religious Instruction; M.Powell 'Listen, Daughters of Light': The Epithalamium and Musical Innovation in Germany c. 1150; C.Jeffreys The Cloister and the Garden: Gendered Images of Religious Life from the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries; J.M.Pinder The Speculum virginum and Traditions of Medieval Dialogue; S.Flanagan The Literature of Spiritual Formation for Women in France and England 1080-1180; E.Bos Herrad of Hohenbourg: A Synthesis of Learning in The Garden of Delights ; F.Griffiths The Second Blossoming of a Text: The Spieghel der Maechden and the Modern Devotion; U.Küsters The Speculum virginum : Translated Excerpts; B.Newman

O autorze

CONSTANT J. MEWS teaches in the Department of History at Monash University in Australia, where he is also Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology.