Monograph Open Access Full access
Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century
The Woman in the Mirror- Authors:
- Series:
- Medieval Media and Culture
- Publisher:
- 2020
Search publication
Bibliographic data
- Edition
- 1/2020
- Copyright Year
- 2020
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-64189-377-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-64189-378-7
- Publisher
- Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
- Series
- Medieval Media and Culture
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 436
- Product Type
- Monograph
Table of contents
ChapterPages
- Table of contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- IntroductionPages 1 - 14 Download chapter (PDF)
- Pucele and Sinnec wîp
- Readers and Representations
- Reading, Gnosis, and the “Weak Sex”
- Sicut mulier legit psalterium: Women as Illiterates
- Litterata, deo cultrix: Woman as Mirror of Lay Devotion
- Hildegard’s Persona and the Psalter-Literate Woman
- The Annunciation as a Reading Moment
- Mary’s Reading and the Song of Songs
- Reading as Mary Did: The De incarnatione Domini of Rupert of Deutz
- Reading as the Bride Embodied: Hildegard and Her “Publicists”
- The Speculum virginum
- The Woman in the Mirror: Listening as Adulescentula
- The Woman in the Mirror: Reading as nova ooliba
- A Female Poetics of Body and Truth
- St Albans, a Psalter, a Life
- Pictures, Sacra historia, and Reading as Mary Did
- A Female Gaze and Women’s Vision
- Alexis Recognized
- Enter the Widowed Bride
- The Mediatrix and Her Last Gifts
- En romans traire: Translating Reading Experience
- Riche dame de riche rei? Eleanor of Aquitaine and Le Roman de Troie
- Translating Scripture for Ma dame de Champaigne
- Espeuse and Damoisele: the Song of Songs en romans
- Lambert of Ardres, the Counts of Guines, and the Mutations of Lay Literary Identity
- Reading as the New Eve—en romans
- Mutations of the Old Eve: Reading Woman as History
- Reading Women False and True: The Cleric’s Instruction
- Reading Women False and True: The Knight’s Narration
- Lactans Dolorosa: Herzeloyde and Mary’s Reading
- The Layman’s Key to Peter’s Gate
- The Advent of Âventiure and the Reconception of the Word
- Ist iemen dinne? (Is Anybody There?)
- Reading the Widow
- Yvain and the “tres bele crestïenne”
- Sigune’s Reading
- Conclusion
- Appendix: The Prologue to Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival1Pages 381 - 384 Download chapter (PDF)
- Primary Texts and Translations
- Secondary Literature
- IndexPages 411 - 420 Download chapter (PDF)
