Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century : The Woman in the Mirror /

The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden interest in and legit...

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Main Author: Powell, Morgan, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Medieval media and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mutations of the reading woman
  • Reading as Mary did
  • Constructing the woman's mirror
  • Seeking the reader/ viewer of the St. Albans Psalter
  • Quae est ista, quae ascendit? (Canticles 3:6) : rethinking the woman reader in Early Old French literature
  • Ego dilecto meo et dilectus meus mihi (Canticles 6:2) : Mary's reading and the Epiphany of Empathy
  • A new poetics for Âventiure : the exposition of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
  • The heart, the wound, and the word--sacred and profane.