Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Iberia : Spinning the Text

Proporcionado por el editor: "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" Preface vii Acknowledgements xxi List of Figures xxiv Introduction: A Space on the Page 1 Part 1. Reading Women 1. A Woman’s Dilemma: To Read or not To Read 21 2. What Every Woman Should Know: Women Readers and the Preachers 50 3. Fantasy and Resistance: Medieval Women and Romance 117 Part 2. Writing Women The Court 4. Lettering Power and 'Auctoritas': Violant de Bar, Queen of Aragon, a 'dame sans per' 171 5. 'Es verdad que lo vi y pasó por mi': Leonor López de Córdoba’s Chronicle of Truth 227 The Convent 6. Forging an 'interior monastery': Constanza de Castilla’s 'Libro de devociones y oficios' 267 7. Disabling Rhetoric in Teresa de Cartagena’s 'Arboleda de los enfermos' and 'Admiraçión Operum Dey' 302 8. Isabel de Villena’s 'Vita Christi': Regendering Christ’s 'Passio' 356 Epilogue: Discarding the Distaff: Rewriting Minerva in Beatriz Bernal’s 'Cristalián de España' 410 Conclusion 418 Bibliography 427 Index 473 Introduction: 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 Admiracion Operum Dey -- Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi: Regendering Christ's Passio -- Epilogue: Discarding the Distaff: Rewriting Minerva in Beatriz Bernal's Cristalián de España -- Conclusion "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"-- Provided by publisher A study of the cultural practices and paradigms of reading and textual composition among medieval Iberian women readers and writers (specifically Violant of Bar, Leonor Lpez de Crdoba, Constanza de Castilla, Teresa de Cartagena and Isabel de Villena).