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Listen Daughter - The Speculum Virginum and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages (Paperback, 1st ed. 2001)
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Listen Daughter - The Speculum Virginum and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages (Paperback, 1st ed. 2001)
Series: The New Middle Ages
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The words 'Listen daughter' (Audi filia, from Psalm 44 in the Latin
Vulgate) were frequently used in exhortations to religious women in
the twelfth century. This was a period of dramatic growth in the
involvement of women in various forms of religious life. While
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) has become widely known in recent
years as one of the most eloquent and original voices of the
period, she is often seen as a figure in isolation from her
context. She lived at a time of much questioning of traditional
models of religious life, by women as well as by men. This volume
introduces readers to a range of strategies provoked by the growth
in women's participation in religious life in one form or another,
as well as to male responses to this development. In particular, it
looks at the 'Mirror for Virgins' (Speculum Virginum), an
illustrated dialogue between a nun and her spiritual mentor written
by a monk not long before Hildegard started to record her visions.
While this treatise engages in dialogue with a fictional virgin,
other writings present women (not just Hildegard) as teaching both
women and men. An appendix will provide the first English
translation of significant excerpts from the Speculum, as well as
from other little known texts about religious women from the age of
Hildegard. The underlying concern of this volume is to examine new
ways in which religious life for women was conceived by men as well
as interpreted in practice by women within a society firmly
patriarchal in character.
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