Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions
and Vitae explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their
books into vehicles for the reader’s spiritual transformation.
Jessica Barr argues that the cognitive work of reading these texts
was meant to stimulate intensely personal responses, and that the
very materiality of the book can produce an intimate encounter with
God. She thus explores the differences between mystics’
biographies and their self-presentation, analyzing as well the
complex rhetorical moves that medieval women writers employ to
render their accounts more effective. This new volume is structured
around five case studies. Chapters consider the biographies of
13th-century holy women from Liège, the writings of Margery Kempe,
Gertrude of Helfta, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and
Julian of Norwich. At the heart of Intimate Reading is the question
of how reading works—what it means to enter imaginatively and
intellectually into the words of another. The volume showcases the
complexity of medieval understandings of the work of reading,
deepening our perception of the written word’s capacity to
signify something that lies even beyond rational comprehension.
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