Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom /

Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom / [electronic resource] : edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. - xix, 292, [1] p. : ill. - Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 142 . - Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 142. .

"The essays in this collection are offered to Penelope D. Johnson ... on the occasion of her retirement"--Pref. "Most of the papers ... had their inception in a series of three panels convened in Pene's honor at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May of 2006."--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Gender, power, and patronage : the impact of Penelope D. Johnson on medieval studies ; Penelope D. Johnson, the Boswell thesis, and Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe / Living with a saint : monastic identity, community, and the ideal of asceticism in the life of an Irish saint / A tale of two dioceses : prologues as letters in the Vitae authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpre / "Within the walls of paradise" : space and community in the Vita of Umiliana de' Cerchi (1219-1246) / Architectural mimesis and historical memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel / Holy women and the needle arts : piety, devotion, and stitching the sacred, ca. 500-1150 / The politics of gender and ethnicity in East Francia : the case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950 / 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 / "Inseparable companions" : Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise / Book, body, and the construction of the self in the Taymouth hours / Abbott Erluin's blindness : the monastic implications of violent loss of sight / Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Chateau-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault / The matter of others : menstrual blood and uncontrolled semen in thirteenth-century kabbalists' polemic against Christians, "bad" Jews, and Muslims / Katherine Allen Smith, Scott Wells -- Diane Peters Auslander -- Christina Roukis-Stern -- Anne M. Schuchman -- Katherine Allen Smith -- Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg -- Scott Wells -- Constance Hoffman Berman -- Susan Valentine -- Kathryn A. Smith -- Susan Wade -- Elizabeth A.R. Brown -- Alexandra Cuffel.


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Johnson, Penelope D. 1938-


Religion and sociology--History--Europe--To 1500.
Monastic and religious life--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.


Europe--Religious life and customs.


Electronic books.

BL690 / .N45 2009

274/.03