Women readers and writers in medieval Iberia : : spinning the text / / by Montserrat Piera.

• Superior document: Afrika-Studiecentrum Series; volume38
• VerfasserIn: Piera, Montserrat,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Afrika-Studiecentrum Series; volume38.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (507 pages).

This book is devoted to medieval Iberian women, readers and writers. Focusing on the stories and texts women heard, visually experienced or read, and the stories that they rewrote, the work explores women’s experiences and cultural practices and their efforts to make sense of their place within their familial networks and communities. The study is based on two methodological and interpretive threads: a new paradigm to represent premodern reading and, a study of women’s writing, or, more precisely, women’s textualities, as a process of creating words but also acts, social practices, emotions and, ultimately, affectus, understood here as the embodiment of the ability to affect and be affected.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- A Space on the Page -- Reading Women -- A Woman’s Dilemma: To Read or not To Read -- What Every Woman Should Know: Women Readers and the Preachers -- Fantasy and Resistance: Medieval Women and Romance -- Writing Women -- The Court -- Lettering Power and Auctoritas: Violant de Bar, Queen of Aragon, a “dame sans per” -- “Es verdad que lo vi y pasó por mi”: Leonor López de Córdoba’s Chronicle of Truth -- The Convent -- Forging an “interior monastery:” Constanza de Castilla’s Libro de devociones y oficios -- Disabling Rhetoric in Teresa de Cartagena’s Arboleda de los enfermos and Admiraçión Operum Dey -- Isabel de Villena’s Vita Christi: Regendering Christ’s Passio -- Discarding the Distaff: Rewriting Minerva in Beatriz Bernal’s Cristalián de España -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.