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Book Synopsis[An] admirable collection. . For anyone interested in what Wogan-Browne calls "the historiography of female community", nuns' libraries and literacy, and Barking abbey itself, this first-class collection of essays is essential reading. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW Essays on the texts produced at Barking Abbey - one of the most important centres for writings in the Middle Ages.
Trade ReviewTo be welcomed as a significant study of female literacy and monastic life in the Middle Ages. * ENGLISH *
A strong resource. * MAGISTRA 19.1, Summer 2013 *
[E]minent scholars from various disciplines present a variety of topics and approaches, that, taken together, emphasize the abbey's importance. The result is a volume that merits a place alongside other works on women's religious culture in the Middle Ages. [...] Recommended. * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Barking's Lives, the Abbey and its Abbesses Barking's Monastic School, Late Seventh to Early Twelfth Century: History, Saint Making and Literary Culture - Stephanie Hollis The Saint-Maker and the Saint: Hildelith Creates Ethelburg - Lisa M.C. Weston Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Translation Ceremony for Saints Ethelburg, Hildelith, and Wulfhild - Kay Slocum 'The Ladies Have Made Me Quite Fat': Authors and Patrons at Barking Abbey - Thomas O'Donnell 'Sun num n'i vult dire a ore': Identity Matters at Barking Abbey - Delbert W. Russell '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 - Thelma Fenster Body, Gender, and Nation in the Lives of Edward the Confessor - Jennifer N. Brown Clemence and Catherine: The Life of St Catherine in its Norman and Anglo-Norman Context - Diane Auslander Cicero, Aelred and Guernes: The Politics of Love in Clemence of Barking's Catherine - Donna Alfano Bussell The Authority of Diversity: Communal Patronage in Le Gracial - Emma Berat Keeping Body and Soul Together: The Charge to the Barking Cellaress - Alexandra Barratt Rhythmic Liturgy, Embodiment and Female Authority in Barking's Easter Plays - Jill Stevenson Liturgy as the Site of Creative Engagement: Contributions of the Nuns of Barking - Anne Bagnall Yardley Afterword: Barking and the Historiography of Female Community - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Bibliography
