Intimate Reading : Textual Encounters in Medieval Women's Visions and Vitae
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Avoiding Intimacy: Embodiment and Interpretation in Liégeois Hagiography -- Chapter 2. Flirting with Intimacy: Wounds and Wonder in a Liégeois Codex -- Chapter 3. Bookish Intimacy: Reading Margery Kempe -- Chapter 4. Imagined Intimac...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
2020
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| Sujets: | Women mystics Christian women Christian literature Books and reading Human body Intimacy (Psychology) Visions in literature Electronic books |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
| Résumé: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Avoiding Intimacy: Embodiment and Interpretation in Liégeois Hagiography -- Chapter 2. Flirting with Intimacy: Wounds and Wonder in a Liégeois Codex -- Chapter 3. Bookish Intimacy: Reading Margery Kempe -- Chapter 4. Imagined Intimacy: Corporeal Encounters in Mechthild of Magdeburg and Gertrude of Helfta -- Chapter 5. Dialogic Intimacy: Marguerite Porete and Julian of Norwich -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780472126354 0472126350 9780472131693 0472131699 |