Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe : : gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom / / edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells.

• Superior document: Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 142
• TeilnehmendeR: Smith, Katherine Allen.; Wells, Scott, 1970-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 142.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Notes: "The essays in this collection are offered to Penelope D. Johnson ... on the occasion of her retirement"--Pref.; "Most of the papers ... had their inception in a series of three panels convened in Pene's honor at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May of 2006."--Pref.
• Other title: Gender, power, and patronage : the impact of Penelope D. Johnson on medieval studies ; Penelope D. Johnson, the Boswell thesis, and Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe /; Living with a saint : monastic identity, community, and the ideal of asceticism in the life of an Irish saint /; A tale of two dioceses : prologues as letters in the Vitae authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpre /; "Within the walls of paradise" : space and community in the Vita of Umiliana de' Cerchi (1219-1246) /; Architectural mimesis and historical memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel /; Holy women and the needle arts : piety, devotion, and stitching the sacred, ca. 500-1150 /; The politics of gender and ethnicity in East Francia : the case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950 /; Noble women's power as reflected in the foundations of Cistercian houses for nuns in thirteenth-century Northern France : Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres /; "Inseparable companions" : Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise /; Book, body, and the construction of the self in the Taymouth hours /; Abbott Erluin's blindness : the monastic implications of violent loss of sight /; Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Chateau-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault /; The matter of others : menstrual blood and uncontrolled semen in thirteenth-century kabbalists' polemic against Christians, "bad" Jews, and Muslims /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 1282400282; 9786612400285; 9047424565
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells.

This collection builds on the foundational work of Penelope D. Johnson, John Boswell's most influential student outside queer studies, on integration and segregation in medieval Christianity. It documents the multiple strategies by which medieval people constructed identities and, in the process, wove the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion among various individuals and groups. The collection adopts an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing historical, art historical, and literary perpsectives to explore the definition of personal and communal spaces within medieval texts, the complex negotiation of the relationship between devotee and saint in both the early and the later Middle Ages, the forming of partnerships (symbolic, economic, devotional, et cetera) between men and women across medieval Europe's considerable gender divide, and the ostracism of individuals and groups through various means including imprisonment, violence, and their identification with pollution. Contributors include: Diane Peters Auslander, Constance Hoffman Berman, Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Alexandra Cuffel, Anne M. Schuchman, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Katherine Allen Smith, Kathryn A. Smith, Christina Roukis-Stern, Susan Valentine, Susan Wade, and Scott Wells.