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The embodied Word female spiritualities, contested orthodoxies, and English religious cultures, 1350-1700 /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Medieval legacies and female spiritualities across the "great divide" : Julian of Norwich, Grace Mildmay, and the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and Paris --…”
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The embodied Word female spiritualities, contested orthodoxies, and English religious cultures, 1350-1700 /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Medieval legacies and female spiritualities across the "great divide" : Julian of Norwich, Grace Mildmay, and the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and Paris --…”
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Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Noble women's power as reflected in the foundations of Cistercian houses for nuns in thirteenth-century Northern France : Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres /…”
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Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Noble women's power as reflected in the foundations of Cistercian houses for nuns in thirteenth-century Northern France : Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres /…”
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Sacred profanity spirituality at the movies /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Biblical movies: quoting scripture for one's purpose -- The changing face of Jesus -- Members of the cloth: nuns and priests on screen -- Spirits and ghosts in film -- Stars' religious beliefs -- Religious symbolism -- Diabolism: Hell can wait -- Conclusion.…”
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Sacred profanity spirituality at the movies /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Biblical movies: quoting scripture for one's purpose -- The changing face of Jesus -- Members of the cloth: nuns and priests on screen -- Spirits and ghosts in film -- Stars' religious beliefs -- Religious symbolism -- Diabolism: Hell can wait -- Conclusion.…”
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Heterosyncrasies female sexuality when normal wasn't /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…-- Untold pleasures : Heloise's theory of female desire and religious practice -- Far from heaven : nuns, prioresses, and Lollard anxieties -- Before the tribade : medieval anatomies of female masculinity and pleasure -- Amazons at the gates.…”
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Heterosyncrasies female sexuality when normal wasn't /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…-- Untold pleasures : Heloise's theory of female desire and religious practice -- Far from heaven : nuns, prioresses, and Lollard anxieties -- Before the tribade : medieval anatomies of female masculinity and pleasure -- Amazons at the gates.…”
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William Faulkner, Gavin Stevens, and the Cavalier tradition
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Gavin Stevens: early appearancves and prototypes -- Intrusions into the past: Go down, Moses and Intruder in the dust -- Justice as he saw it: Knight's gambit and Requiem for a nun -- Untapped mythic connections: Sir Gawain and the green knight, Sir Galwyn of Arthgyl, and Gavin Stevens in the Snopes trilogy -- 'Forming her mind': Gavin Stevens and Linda Snopes Kohl.…”
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William Faulkner, Gavin Stevens, and the Cavalier tradition
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Gavin Stevens: early appearancves and prototypes -- Intrusions into the past: Go down, Moses and Intruder in the dust -- Justice as he saw it: Knight's gambit and Requiem for a nun -- Untapped mythic connections: Sir Gawain and the green knight, Sir Galwyn of Arthgyl, and Gavin Stevens in the Snopes trilogy -- 'Forming her mind': Gavin Stevens and Linda Snopes Kohl.…”
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To kill the king post-traditional governance and bureaucracy /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…-- Self, with style -- Other and hesitation -- Tradition : golden ruling -- Other traditions : silver ruling -- Start with Michelangelo : what I, a bureaucrat, expect -- Visible hand : cult of the leader -- Invisible hand : unexamined rhetoric -- A nun and barbed wire -- Love and mere efficiency -- To kill the king, and "good and no places".…”
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To kill the king post-traditional governance and bureaucracy /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…-- Self, with style -- Other and hesitation -- Tradition : golden ruling -- Other traditions : silver ruling -- Start with Michelangelo : what I, a bureaucrat, expect -- Visible hand : cult of the leader -- Invisible hand : unexamined rhetoric -- A nun and barbed wire -- Love and mere efficiency -- To kill the king, and "good and no places".…”
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"Not even past" race, historical trauma, and subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…: nation, home, women, and violence in Requiem for a nun -- "Anyone with half an eye": blackness and the disaster of narcissism in Quicksand -- "A having way": fetishism and the black bourgeoisie in Passing -- "To glorify the negro": photographic shock and blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture.…”
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Autobiographical writing by early modern Hispanic women /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Telling li(v)es: women and autobiography -- Court and convent: Leonor López de Córdoba and Sor Teresa de Cartagena -- Carmelite and Cloister: Santa Teresa de Jesús -- In the footsteps of Santa Teresa: Carmelite nuns and the reform(er) -- Soldier in New Spain: Catalina de Erauso -- Defending her life: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.…”
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"Not even past" race, historical trauma, and subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…: nation, home, women, and violence in Requiem for a nun -- "Anyone with half an eye": blackness and the disaster of narcissism in Quicksand -- "A having way": fetishism and the black bourgeoisie in Passing -- "To glorify the negro": photographic shock and blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture.…”
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Autobiographical writing by early modern Hispanic women /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Telling li(v)es: women and autobiography -- Court and convent: Leonor López de Córdoba and Sor Teresa de Cartagena -- Carmelite and Cloister: Santa Teresa de Jesús -- In the footsteps of Santa Teresa: Carmelite nuns and the reform(er) -- Soldier in New Spain: Catalina de Erauso -- Defending her life: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.…”
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Pilgrims and travellers in search of the holy
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Janhunen -- Tourism, pilgrimage, and the fluidity of material culture in Labrang/Xiahe / Juha Komppa -- Tibetan Buddhist nuns : Damcho Pema's prostrating pilgrimage to Lhasa / Lhundrub Dorji -- Some remarks on understanding the motives of Tibetan nuns / Mitra Hirkinen.…”
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Pilgrims and travellers in search of the holy
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Janhunen -- Tourism, pilgrimage, and the fluidity of material culture in Labrang/Xiahe / Juha Komppa -- Tibetan Buddhist nuns : Damcho Pema's prostrating pilgrimage to Lhasa / Lhundrub Dorji -- Some remarks on understanding the motives of Tibetan nuns / Mitra Hirkinen.…”
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Still Thriving: On the Importance of Aranye Fradenburg /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Schiff -- Provision and provisionality / Julie Orlemanski -- Critical thriving : Chaucer, the Nun's priest tale, and the MLA / Kathy Lavezzo -- Sacrificial enjoyment / Paul Megna -- Living/riddle / Daniel C. …”
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Still Thriving: On the Importance of Aranye Fradenburg /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Schiff -- Provision and provisionality / Julie Orlemanski -- Critical thriving : Chaucer, the Nun's priest tale, and the MLA / Kathy Lavezzo -- Sacrificial enjoyment / Paul Megna -- Living/riddle / Daniel C. …”
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