Gender and exemplarity in medieval and early modern Spain / / edited by Maria Morras, Rebeca Sanmartin Bastida, Yonsoo Kim.

• Superior document: The medieval and early modern Iberian world, Volume 79
• TeilnehmendeR: Morrás, María,; Sanmartín Bastida, Rebeca,; Kim, Yonsoo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; Volume 79.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were con¬strued as saintly examples through narratives, mostly composed by male writers; the second focuses on the use made of exemplary life-accounts by women writers in order to fashion their own social identity and their role as authors. The volume includes studies on relevant models (Mary Magdalen, Virgin Mary, living saints), means of transmission, sponsorship and agency (reading circles, print, patronage), and female writers (Leonor López de Córdoba, Isabel de Villena, Teresa of Ávila) involved in creating textual exemplars for women.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida and Yonsoo Kim -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Saints Textual: embodying Female Exemplarity in Spanish Literature -- María Morrás -- Part 1: Rewriting Models -- 1Hagiography, Corporeality, and the Gaze: sexual/Ascetic Tension in the Vida de Santa María Egipciaca -- Andrew M. Beresford -- 2Under Suspicion: Mary Magdalene in Late Medieval Castile, Virtuous and Illustrious? -- María Morrás -- 3Discernment of Spirits and Spiritual Authority: the Tractatus de vita spirituali and Its Afterlife -- Rosa Vidal Doval -- 4Women Prophets for a New World: Angela of Foligno, "Living Saints", and the Religious Reform Movement in Cardinal Cisneros's Castile -- Pablo Acosta-García -- 5Models of Female Spirituality in Sixteenth-century Spain: Women Accused of Lutheranism -- Jimena Gamba Corradine -- Part 2: Inscribing Models -- 6"No hay quien vele a Alonso": Imitatio Mariae and the Problem of Conversion in Leonor López de Córdoba's Memorias -- Ryan D. Giles -- 7Speaking of Heaven in Conventual Women's Writing (Constanza de Castilla, Teresa de Cartagena, Isabel de Villena, and Teresa de Jesús) -- Lesley K. Twomey -- 8Torn to Pieces: textual Destruction in Teresa de Jesús's Vida -- Christopher van Ginhoven Rey -- Index.