| Description |
1 online resource (352 pages) |
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Frontcover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Barking's Lives, the Abbey and its Abbesses; I Barking Abbey and its Anglo-Saxon Context; 1. Barking's Monastic School, Late Seventh to Twelfth Century: History, Saint-Making and Literary Culture; 2. The Saint-Maker and the Saint: Hildelith Creates Ethelburg; 3. Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Translation Ceremony for Saints Ethelburg, Hildelith and Wulfhild; 4. 'The ladies have made me quite fat': Authors and Patrons at Barking Abbey; II Barking Abbey and its Anglo-Norman Context |
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5. 'Sun num n'i vult dire a ore': Identity Matters at Barking Abbey6. 'Ce qu'ens li trovat, eut en sei': On the Equal Chastity of Queen Edith and King Edward in the Nun of Barking's La Vie d'Edouard le confesseur; 7. Body, Gender and Nation in the Lives of Edward the Confessor; 8. Clemence and Catherine: The Life of St Catherine in its Norman and Anglo-Norman Context; 9. Cicero, Aelred and Guernes: The Politics of Love in Clemence of Barking's Catherine; 10. The Authority of Diversity: Communal Patronage in Le Gracial; III Barking Abbey and the Later Middle Ages |
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11. Keeping Body and Soul Together: The Charge to the Barking Cellaress12. Rhythmic Liturgy, Embodiment and Female Authority in Barking's Easter Plays; 13. Liturgy as the Site of Creative Engagement: Contributions of the Nuns of Barking; Afterword. Barking and the Historiography of Female Community; Bibliography; Index; Backcover |
| Summary |
Essays on the texts produced at Barking Abbey - one of the most important centres for writings in the Middle Ages |
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Print version record |
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Barking Abbey gnd |
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Epic literature, Romance-language -- History and criticism
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Epic poetry, French -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Medieval.
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Epic literature, Romance-language
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Epic poetry, French
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bussell, Donna Alfano, 1961-
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| ISBN |
9781782040507 |
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1782040501 |
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