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Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in
commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar
Catherine Innes-Parker. Silence was a much-lauded concept in the
Middle Ages, particularly in the context of religious literature
directed at women. Based on the Pauline prescription that women
should neither preach nor teach, and should at all times keep
speech to a minimum, the concept of silence lay at the forefront of
many devotional texts, particularly those associated with various
forms of women's religious enclosure. Following the example of the
Virgin Mary, religious women were exhorted to speak seldom, and
then only seriously and devoutly. However, as this volume shows,
such gendered exhortations to silence were often more rhetorical
than literal. The contributions range widely: they consider the
English 'Wooing Group' texts and female-authored visionary writings
from the Saxon nunnery of Helfta in the thirteenth century; works
by Richard Rolle and the Dutch mystic Jan van Ruusbroec in the
fourteenth century; Anglo-French treatises, and books housed in the
library of the English noblewoman Cecily Neville in the fifteenth
century; and the resonant poetics of women from non-Christian
cultures. But all demonstrate the ways in which silence, rather
than being a mere absence of speech, frequently comprised a form of
gendered articulation and proto-feminist point of resistance. They
thus provide an apt commemoration and celebration of the deeply
innovative work of Catherine Innes-Parker (1956-2019), the
respected feminist scholar and a pioneer of this important field of
study.
"What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our
classrooms?" Using this question as a starting point, Shakespeare's
Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning presents a conversation between
four of Shakespeare's most popular plays and our modern experience,
and between teachers and learners. The book analyzes King Lear, As
You Like It, Henry V, and Hamlet, revealing how they help us to
appreciate and responsibly interrogate the perspectives of others.
Award-winning teachers Lisa Dickson, Shannon Murray, and Jessica
Riddell explore a diversity of genres - tragedy, history, and
comedy - with distinct perspectives from their own lived
experiences. They carry on lively conversations in the margins of
each essay, mirroring the kind of open, ongoing, and collaborative
thinking that Shakespeare inspires. The book is informed by ideas
of social justice and transformation, articulated by such thinkers
as Paulo Freire, Parker J. Palmer, Ira Shor, John D. Caputo, and
bell hooks. Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning
advocates for a critical hope that arises from classroom
experiences and moves into the world at large.
"What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our
classrooms?" Using this question as a starting point, Shakespeare's
Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning presents a conversation between
four of Shakespeare's most popular plays and our modern experience,
and between teachers and learners. The book analyzes King Lear, As
You Like It, Henry V, and Hamlet, revealing how they help us to
appreciate and responsibly interrogate the perspectives of others.
Award-winning teachers Lisa Dickson, Shannon Murray, and Jessica
Riddell explore a diversity of genres - tragedy, history, and
comedy - with distinct perspectives from their own lived
experiences. They carry on lively conversations in the margins of
each essay, mirroring the kind of open, ongoing, and collaborative
thinking that Shakespeare inspires. The book is informed by ideas
of social justice and transformation, articulated by such thinkers
as Paulo Freire, Parker J. Palmer, Ira Shor, John D. Caputo, and
bell hooks. Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning
advocates for a critical hope that arises from classroom
experiences and moves into the world at large.
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