Awareness of the ecclesiastical doctrine of discretio spirituum (the means of testing whether visions were truly of divine origin) was vital for medieval women visionaries. Visions and prophecy offered medieval women one of the few pathways to the religious and, in some cases, the political life of their time, but were subject to stringent checks due to the combination of women (deceitful by nature) and deceiving visions. However, those women visionaries who conformed could effectively fulfil their divine mandate to communicate their revelations. This book explores discretio spirituum in the works of a number of female visionaries: they include St Bridget of Sweden, who was eager to present her experiences as impeccably orthodox and valid; Margery Kempe, whose ambivalent reception is shown to be due to her inconsistent conformity to the doctrine; and Marguerite Porete and Joan of Arc, whose deaths by burning at the stake demonstrate the severe consequences of their failure to conform, their visions being deemed of demonic origin. Professor ROSALYNN VOADEN teaches in the Department of English at Arizona State University.

God's Words, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries (York Studies in Medieval Theology)

History

Voaden, Rosalynn

World

York Medieval Press

<p>In this themed collection of 24 articles by literary, historical and archaeological scholars, the study of medieval women is confidently and freshly mainstream. Profiting from the development of newly flexible models of gender, literacy, the political, the social, and the domestic, the volume is non-separatist, exploratory both of new source materials and new readings of established sources, and able to consider the broadest implications for the study of medieval culture without simply re-absorbing medieval women into invisibility. Grouped under the headings of matters of reading, of conduct and place, the essays move from legal cases to actual buildings and conceptions of the household to conduct books and chronicles to romances and saints' lives to the medieval unconscious and back again, exemplifying the mature interdisciplinarity of current work on medieval women. The contributors are: Priscilla Bawcutt, Peter Biller, Julia Boffey, Carolyn Collette, Patricia Cullum, Arlyn Diamond, Jane Gilbert, Jeremy Goldberg, Douglas Gray, Jane Grenville, Ann Hutchison, Noel James Menuge. Eric Johnson, Katherine Lewis, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Sally Mapstone, Carol Meale, Alastair Minnis, Mark Ormrod, Helen Phillips, Kim Phillips, Sarah Rees Jones, Colin Richmond, Anne Savage, Nicholas Watson and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne.</p>

Medieval Women - Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain: Essays in Honour of Felicity Riddy (Brepols Medieval Women Series)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Brepols Publishers

<p>The interest of the writers of these essays in the intricacies and implications of translation in the Middle Ages, or of the translation of medieval texts in the modern period, has resulted in a diverse and intellectually stimulating volume. The papers in this volume, written in either English, French, or Spanish, approach translation from a wide variety of perspectives and offer a range of interpretations of the concept of translation. The volume contains essays ranging in time from the Anglo Saxon period to the present, and in topic from medieval recipe books to arguments in favour of women administering the sacrament. Languages studied include non-European languages as well as Latin and numerous European vernaculars as both source and target languages. As any translator or student of translation quickly becomes aware, it is impossible to divorce language from culture. All the contributors to this volume struggle with the complexities of translation as a cultural act, even when the focus would seem to be specifically linguistic. It is these complexities which lend the study of the theory and practice of translation in the Middle Ages its enduring fascination.</p>

The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages (Medieval Translator)

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