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1 online resource (436 pages) |
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Medieval Media and Culture Ser |
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Medieval Media and Culture Ser
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| Contents |
Front Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One. Reading as sponsa et mater -- Chapter 1. Mutations of the Reading Woman -- 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 -- Chapter 2. Reading as Mary Did |
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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" -- Chapter 3. Constructing the Woman's Mirror -- 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 -- Chapter 4. Seeking the Reader/Viewer of the St Albans Psalter -- St Albans, a Psalter, a Life -- Pictures, Sacra historia, and Reading as Mary Did |
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A Female Gaze and Women's Vision -- Alexis Recognized -- Enter the Widowed Bride -- The Mediatrix and Her Last Gifts -- Part Two. Reading the Widowed Bride -- Chapter 5. Quae est ista, quae ascendit? (Canticles 3:6) -- 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 -- Chapter 6. Ego dilecto meo et dilectus meus mihi (Canticles 6:2) -- Espeuse and Damoisele: the Song of Songs en romans -- Lambert of Ardres, the Counts of Guines, and the Mutations of Lay Literary Identity |
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Reading as the New Eve-en romans -- Mutations of the Old Eve: Reading Woman as History -- Chapter 7. A New Poetics for Âventiure -- 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 -- Chapter 8. The Heart, the Wound, and the Word- Sacred and Profane -- 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 |
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Appendix: The Prologue to Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival1 -- Works Cited -- Primary Texts and Translations -- Secondary Literature -- Index |
| Summary |
Argues that a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
German literature -- History and criticism -- Middle High German, 1050-1500
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Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation
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French literature -- History and criticism -- To 1500
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French literature.
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German literature.
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Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781641893787 |
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1641893788 |
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