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1 online resource (x, 419 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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text file |
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Medieval media and culture
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Medieval media and culture.
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Note |
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-410) and index. |
| 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 -- The heart, the wound, and the word--sacred and profane. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| 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. Powell 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, Powell 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. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation.
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Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation. |
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German literature -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- History and criticism.
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French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
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French literature. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Women and literature -- History -- To 1500.
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Women and literature. |
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History. |
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Women -- Religious life -- Europe -- History.
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Women -- Religious life. |
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Europe. |
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Women -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Women -- Books and reading -- Europe -- History.
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Women -- Books and reading. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books. .
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781641893770 |
| ISBN |
9781641893787 |
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1641893788 |
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9781641893770 |
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