Listen Daughter
The Speculum Virginum and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages
Series: The New Middle Ages;
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Product details:
- Edition number 2002
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US
- Date of Publication 8 February 2002
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780312240080
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages306 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 558 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XIII, 306 p. 0
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Long description:
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. This was a period of dramatic growth in the involvement of women in various forms of religious life. While Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) has become widely known in recent years as one of the most eloquent and original voices of the period, she is often seen as a figure in isolation from her context. She lived at a time of much questioning of traditional models of religious life, by women as well as by men. This volume introduces readers to a range of strategies provoked by the growth in women's participation in religious life in one form or another, as well as to male responses to this development. In particular, it looks at the 'Mirror for Virgins' (Speculum Virginum), an illustrated dialogue between a nun and her spiritual mentor written by a monk not long before Hildegard started to record her visions. While this treatise engages in dialogue with a fictional virgin, other writings present women (not just Hildegard) as teaching both women and men. An appendix will provide the first English translation of significant excerpts from the Speculum, as well as from other little known texts about religious women from the age of Hildegard. The underlying concern of this volume is to examine new ways in which religious life for women was conceived by men as well as interpreted in practice by women within a society firmly patriarchal in character.
MoreTable of Contents:
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
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