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.

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 proces...

Table of Contents

• 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 / Katherine Allen Smith, Scott Wells
• Living with a saint : monastic identity, community, and the ideal of asceticism in the life of an Irish saint / Diane Peters Auslander
• A tale of two dioceses : prologues as letters in the Vitae authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpre / Christina Roukis-Stern
• "Within the walls of paradise" : space and community in the Vita of Umiliana de' Cerchi (1219-1246) / Anne M. Schuchman
• Architectural mimesis and historical memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel / Katherine Allen Smith
• Holy women and the needle arts : piety, devotion, and stitching the sacred, ca. 500-1150 / Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg
• The politics of gender and ethnicity in East Francia : the case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950 / Scott Wells
• 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 / Constance Hoffman Berman
• "Inseparable companions" : Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise / Susan Valentine
• Book, body, and the construction of the self in the Taymouth hours / Kathryn A. Smith
• Abbott Erluin's blindness : the monastic implications of violent loss of sight / Susan Wade
• Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Chateau-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault / Elizabeth A.R. Brown
• The matter of others : menstrual blood and uncontrolled semen in thirteenth-century kabbalists' polemic against Christians, "bad" Jews, and Muslims / Alexandra Cuffel.