Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture : Authorship and Authority in a Female Community.
Essays on the texts produced at Barking Abbey - one of the most important centres for writings in the Middle Ages.
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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer Ltd.,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Barking's Lives, the Abbey and its Abbesses; I Barking Abbey and its Anglo-Saxon Context; 1. Barking's Monastic School, Late Seventh to Twelfth Century: History, Saint-Making and Literary Culture; 2. The Saint-Maker and the Saint: Hildelith Creates Ethelburg; 3. Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Translation Ceremony for Saints Ethelburg, Hildelith and Wulfhild; 4. 'The ladies have made me quite fat': Authors and Patrons at Barking Abbey; II Barking Abbey and its Anglo-Norman Context.
- 5. 'Sun num n'i vult dire a ore': Identity Matters at Barking Abbey6. 'Ce qu'ens li trovat, eut en sei': On the Equal Chastity of Queen Edith and King Edward in the Nun of Barking's La Vie d'Edouard le confesseur; 7. Body, Gender and Nation in the Lives of Edward the Confessor; 8. Clemence and Catherine: The Life of St Catherine in its Norman and Anglo-Norman Context; 9. Cicero, Aelred and Guernes: The Politics of Love in Clemence of Barking's Catherine; 10. The Authority of Diversity: Communal Patronage in Le Gracial; III Barking Abbey and the Later Middle Ages.
- 11. Keeping Body and Soul Together: The Charge to the Barking Cellaress12. Rhythmic Liturgy, Embodiment and Female Authority in Barking's Easter Plays; 13. Liturgy as the Site of Creative Engagement: Contributions of the Nuns of Barking; Afterword. Barking and the Historiography of Female Community; Bibliography; Index; Backcover.