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Women intellectuals and leaders in the Middle Ages
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- Creator
- edited by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, John Van Engen
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Paperback edition
- Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2022
- Physical Details
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- xv, 420 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1843846764, 9781843846765
- OCLC
- on1327549275
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction Taking early women intellectuals and leaders seriously / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton -- Part I. Scholarship, law, and poetry : Jewish and Muslim women Preface to part I : authorship and intellectual life : Jewish and Muslim women / Ruth Mazo Karras -- Gender, scholarship, and the construction of authority in the pre-modern Muslim world / Asma Afsaruddin -- The historiography of absence : preliminary steps towards a new history of Andalusi women poets / S.J. Pearce -- Medieval Anglo-Jewish women at court / Adrienne Williams Boyarin -- Part II. Authorship, intellectual life, and the professional writer Preface to part II : intellectuals, leaders, doctores / David Wallace -- Agnes of Harcourt as intellectual : new evidence for the composition and circulation of the Vie d'Isabelle de France / Sean L. Field -- Catherine of Siena, Auctor / F. Thomas Luongo -- Christine de Pizan on the Jews, in three texts : the Heures de contemplation sur la passion de nostre seigneur Jhesucrist, the Fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V, and the Mutacion de fortune / Thelma Fenster -- Walking in grandmothers' footsteps : Mary Ward and the medieval spiritual and intellectual heritage / Gemma Simmonds -- Part III. Recovering lost women's authorship Preface to part III : recovering lost women's authorship : new solutions to old problems / A woman author? The middle Dutch dialogue between a "good-willed layperson" and a "Master Eckhart" John Van Engen -- Recovery and loss : women's writing around Marie de France / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, with an appendix by Ian Short -- The visions, experiments, and operations of Bridget of Autruy (fl. 1305-15) / Nicholas Watson -- Part IV. Multidisciplinary approaches to gender, patronage, and power Preface to part IV : methodological innovations for the study of women's authorship and agency / Written with her own hand : Perpetua's representation of non-binary gender in Old English hagiography / Leanne MacDonald -- The materialization of knowledge in thirteenth-century England : Joan Tateshal, Robert Grosseteste, and the Tateshal miscellany / Anna Sievach-Larsen -- Networks of influence : widows, sole administration, and unconventional relationships in thirteenth-century London / Amanda Bohne -- Part V. Religious women in leadership, ministry, and Latin ecclesiastical culture Preface to part V : religious women in leadership, ministry, and Latin ecclesiastical culture / Bede's abbesses / Sarah Foot -- Women's latinity in the early English anchorhold / Megan J. Hall -- The treatment of ordination in recent scholarship on religious women in the Early Middle Ages / Gary Macy -- Saint Colette de Corbie (1381-1447) : reformist leadership and belated sainthood / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski -- Women priests at Barking Abbey in the Late Middle Ages / Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis -- Part VI. Out of the shadows : laywomen in communal leadership Preface to part VI : laywomen as leaders / Dyan Elliott -- Women donors and ecclesiastical reform : evidence from Camaldoli and Vallombrosa, c. 1000-1150 / Maureen C. Miller -- Laywomen's leadership in medieval miracle cults : evidence from Britain, c.1150-1250 / Rachel Koopmans -- Mechthild of Magdeburg at Helfta : a study in literary influence / Barbara Newman -- Epilogue Positioning women in medieval society, culture, and religion / John Van Engen