Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-28045-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 79, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 586 g

Reihe: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World

Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were con¬strued as saintly examples through narratives, mostly composed by male writers; the second focuses on the use made of exemplary life-accounts by women writers in order to fashion their own social identity and their role as authors.

The volume includes studies on relevant models (Mary Magdalen, Virgin Mary, living saints), means of transmission, sponsorship and agency (reading circles, print, patronage), and female writers (Leonor López de Córdoba, Isabel de Villena, Teresa of Ávila) involved in creating textual exemplars for women.

Contributors are: Pablo Acosta-García, Andrew M. Beresford, Jimena Gamba Corradine, Ryan D. Giles, María Morrás, Lesley K. Twomey, Roa Vidal Doval, and Christopher van Ginhoven Rey.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Morrás, María

Sanmartín Bastida, Rebeca

Kim, Yonsoo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida and Yonsoo Kim

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Saints Textual: embodying Female Exemplarity in Spanish Literature

María Morrás

Part 1: Rewriting Models

1Hagiography, Corporeality, and the Gaze: sexual/Ascetic Tension in the Vida de Santa María Egipciaca

Andrew M. Beresford

2Under Suspicion: Mary Magdalene in Late Medieval Castile, Virtuous and Illustrious?

María Morrás

3Discernment of Spirits and Spiritual Authority: theTractatus de vita spirituali and Its Afterlife

Rosa Vidal Doval

4Women Prophets for a New World: Angela of Foligno, “Living Saints”, and the Religious Reform Movement in Cardinal Cisneros’s Castile

Pablo Acosta-García

5Models of Female Spirituality in Sixteenth-century Spain: Women Accused of Lutheranism

Jimena Gamba Corradine

Part 2: Inscribing Models

6“No hay quien vele a Alonso”: Imitatio Mariae and the Problem of Conversion in Leonor López de Córdoba’s Memorias

Ryan D. Giles

7Speaking of Heaven in Conventual Women’s Writing (Constanza de Castilla, Teresa de Cartagena, Isabel de Villena, and Teresa de Jesús)

Lesley K. Twomey

8Torn to Pieces: textual Destruction in Teresa de Jesús’s Vida

Christopher van Ginhoven Rey

Index

Über Autor(innen)

María Morrás, Ph.D. (1992), is Professor of Hispanic Literature at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and Special Lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford. Her publications include numerous critical editions and studies on medieval literature. She has edited special issues on La configuración de la santidad femenina en los siglos XVI y XVII (2015) and Santa Teresa (with R. Sanmartín, 2016).

Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida, Ph.D. (2000), is Professor of Spanish Literature at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. She has published on Spanish visionary women, including editions of María de Santo Domingo’s Revelaciones (with María Luengo Balbás, 2014), Libro de la Oración (with María Victoria Curto Hernández, 2019), and written various monographs.

Yonsoo Kim, Ph.D. (2006), is Associate Professor of Spanish at Purdue University. She works on gender and religion in medieval and Golden Age literature, with a special interest in disability. She is the author of a monograph in this series, Between Desire and Passion: Teresa de Cartagena (2012).