| Description |
1 online resource (x, 419 pages). |
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text file PDF |
| Series |
Medieval media cultures
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Medieval media cultures.
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| 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 -- Heart, the Wound, and the Word : Sacred and Profane -- Conclusion -- Appendix : The Prologue to Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival. |
| Summary |
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 legitimization of literature in these "vulgar tongues"? Until now, the answer has centred on the somewhat nebulous role of new female vernacular readers. This book argues that a different appraisal of the same evidence offers a window onto something more momentous: not "women readers" but instead a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century. This woman is at the centre of a re-conception of Christian knowing, a veritable revolution in the mediation of knowledge and truth. By following this figure through detailed readings of key early works, the author unveils a surprise, a new poetics of the body meant to embrace the capacities of new audiences and viewers of medieval literature and visual art. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
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French literature. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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German literature -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation.
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Women and literature -- History -- To 1500.
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Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation. |
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Women and literature. |
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History. |
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Women -- Books and reading -- Europe -- History.
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Women -- Books and reading. |
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Europe. |
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Women -- Religious life -- Europe -- History.
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Women -- Religious life. |
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Women -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. |
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Women -- Middle Ages. |
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German literature -- Middle High German. |
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Literature, Medieval. |
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Reading. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781641893770 |
| ISBN |
9781641893787 |
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1641893788 |
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9781641893770 hardcover |
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164189377X |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781641893787 |
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