The high Middle Ages / edited by Kari Elisabeth Børresen and Adriana Valerio.

• Christiana de Groot -- Preface to the English edition / Foreword / Introduction: The Bible in the center: the Renovatio Ecclesiae and the emergence of female autonomy (twelfth-fifteenth centuries) / Adriana Valerio. Part 1: The Bible and women: reception and application. The treatment of women in the scriptural commentaries of the twelfth-thirteenth centuries / Gary Macy -- The Bible and women in Spanish didactic-moral literature / María Isabel Toro Pascua -- Women who read the Bible in Spanish kingdoms during the Middle Ages: Christians and Jews / Gemma Avenoza -- The Bible, women heretics, and inquisitors / Marina Benedetti -- Women, the Bible, and the demonology of the fifteenth century / Dinora Corsi -- Part 2: Women and the Bible: texts and contexts. 1: Study and creative interpretations. Heloise's engagement with the Bible: a continuing journey / Constant J. Mews, The Bible and poetry: a biblical epic by a woman (Ava) and a biblical epic about a woman (Judith) / Magda Motté -- Female metaphors, from Scripture to Julian's Showings / Kari Elisabeth Børresen / Theodora Palaeologina and the others: women scholars, copyists, and exegetes in Byzantium / Rosa Maria Parrinello. 
• 2: Mysticism and prophecy. Biblical interpretations in the work of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) / Valeria Ferrari Schiefer, "Like another Rachel, always remember your resolution and be conscious of how you began": Clare of Assisi and the Bible / Martina Kreidler-Kos -- The Bible as center of innovative God-language in Mechthild of Magdeburg and Gertrude of Helfta / Hildegund Keul -- Scripture in Birgitta's revelations / Kari Elisabeth Børresen -- Style and translation of the biblical citations in the letters of Catherine of Siena / Rita Librandi -- "The wolf shall live with the lamb" (Isa 11:6): the defeat of a Converso Utopia in the work of Teresa de Cartagena (1449-1478) / Maria Laura Giordano -- Part 3: Representations in the arts. Apostle and sinner: medieval receptions of Mary of Magdala / Andrea Taschl-Erber -- The Hortus Deliciarum by Herrad of Hohenburg: 1: The image of women and narrative strategies in the Hortus Deliciarum / Paolo Vitolo -- 2: The Bible in the Hortus Deliciarum / Claudia Poggi, Women, the Bible, and music in the Middle Ages / Linda Maria Koldau -- Women and the Bible: iconography of a relationship in the lower Middle Ages / María Leticia Sánchez Hernández.

• "This volume in the series Bible and Women explores the relationship of women to the Bible in the high and late Middle Ages in Europe and Byzantium. It opens up new insights into women's reception and exegesis of biblical texts in their mystical, doctrinal, and literary writings as well as through art and music. The authors examine a variety of interpretations from the Gregorian Reform (1046-1122) up to the Malleus Maleficarum (1498), including traditional exegesis that uses the Bible to legitimize the subordination of women and their exclusion from the spheres of power. Readers will encounter erudite medieval women from Heloise to Christine de Pizan, who developed a new hermeneutic both liberating and empowering. These leaders engaged biblical themes and characters to reflect on their female identity, thereby illumination both their own circumstances and convictions as well as the biblical texts."-- Page 4 of cover. 

Ämnesord

Medeltiden  (sao)

Women in Christianity  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

Christian women  -- Religious life -- History. (LCSH)

Church history  -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. (LCSH)

Bible and feminism  -- History. (LCSH)

Bible and feminism.  (fast)

Feminist criticism.  (fast)

Women in Christianity.  (fast)

Frau  (gnd)

Christentum  (gnd)

Christian women  -- Religious life. (fast)

Church history  -- Middle Ages. (fast)

Kvinnor och kristendom  -- historia (sao)

Middle Ages  (LCSH)

Europe--History--476-1492  (LCSH)

Europa  (sao)

Europe.  (fast)

600-1500  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Titel

Bible -- Feminist criticism -- Europe -- History.

Bible.

Bibeln

Bible -- Feminist criticism -- Europe -- History.

Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Klassifikation

BS521.4 (LCC)

220.082/0902 (DDC)

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