Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages

Foreword Diane Watt Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Medieval Women's Literary Cultures and Thinking Beyond the Local Liz Herbert McAvoy and Sue Niebrzydowski PART 1: Comparison and Dialogue 1. Speaking Across the Stars: Parallel Affective Communities in Islamic and Christian Hagiography Ayoush Lazikani 2. Women's Mystical Friendships: Margery Kempe and Mirabai Alexandra Verini 3. Women's Writing in the Japanese Heian Period: A Medieval Dialogue between the East and West Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa PART 2: Constructing Gender and Genre 4. The Genre of the Late Medieval Personalised Orthodox Slavic Women's Miscellany: Three 'Existential' Questions Michel de Dobbeleer 5. The Role of Kisaeng Sijo Poets in Medieval Korean Literature Ko Jeong-hee and Justin M. Byron-Davies 6. Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya: Gender, Authority and Paradox in Attar's Tadhkirat al-'awliya and the Mantiq al-tayr Shazia Jagot 7. Deception, Infanticide, and the Making of a Female Saint: A Look at the Gädl Kr¿stos ¿ämra Meron T. Gebreananaye PART 3: Saintly Performance and Marian Piety 8. 'Of our Lady thassumpcion': A European Context for the Worshipful Wives of Chester and their Marian Play Sue Niebrzydowski 9. Mary and Elizabeth: Male Perspectives of Female-Coded Piety in Offices for the Visitation Rhianydd Hallas 10. Speaking Internationally in Female Communities on the Eastern Borders of Medieval Europe Renáta Modráková 11. Textual Phantoms and Spectral Presences: The Coming to Rest of Mechthild of Hackeborn's Writing in the Late Middle Ages Liz Herbert McAvoy 12. Negotiating the Abject and the Sublime: The Centrality of Discourse Communities within Women's Mystical Experience Kathryn Loveridge PART 4: Evidence and the Archives: Revisiting and Reconsidering 13. 'Ic þæt secgan mæg': Women, Song, Story, Presence Elaine Treharne 14. In the Undergrowth: Llwyn a Pherth and Sexual Deviancy in Medieval Wales Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan and Sara Elin Roberts 15. 'I shall send yw money to by such stufe as I wull haue': The Paston Shoppers Vicki Kay Price Afterword: Intersectionality and Coalitions Jonathan Hsy List of Contributors Bibliography