04037oam 22007214a 450 991040414190332120220128190616.01-64189-377-X10.1515/9781641893787(CKB)4100000011301900(MdBmJHUP)muse83429(MiAaPQ)EBC6419193(DE-B1597)548859(DE-B1597)9781641893787(OCoLC)1198931016(OCoLC)1175941119(EXLCZ)99410000001130190020200625d2020 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth CenturyThe Woman in the Mirror /Morgan PowellBaltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2020©20201 online resource (x, 419 pages) illustrations (some color)Medieval media cultures1-64189-378-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages [385]-410) and index.Mutations of the reading woman -- Reading as Mary did -- Constructing the woman's mirror -- Seeking the reader/ viewer of the St. Albans Psalter -- Quae est ista, quae ascendit? (Canticles 3:6) : rethinking the woman reader in Early Old French literature -- Ego dilecto meo et dilectus meus mihi (Canticles 6:2) : Mary's reading and the Epiphany of Empathy -- A new poetics for Âventiure : the exposition of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival -- The heart, the wound, and the word--sacred and profane.The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden interest in and legitimization of literature in these "vulgar tongues"? Until now, the answer has centred on the somewhat nebulous role of new female vernacular readers. Powell argues that a different appraisal of the same evidence offers a window onto something more momentous: not "women readers" but instead a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century. This woman is at the centre of a re-conception of Christian knowing, a veritable revolution in the mediation of knowledge and truth. By following this figure through detailed readings of key early works, Powell unveils a surprise, a new poetics of the body meant to embrace the capacities of new audiences and viewers of medieval literature and visual art.Medieval media culturesLiterature, MedievalAppreciationGerman literatureMiddle High German, 1050-1500History and criticismFrench literatureTo 1500History and criticismWomen and literatureHistoryTo 1500WomenReligious lifeEuropeHistoryWomenEuropeHistoryMiddle Ages, 500-1500WomenBooks and readingEuropeHistoryChrétien de Troyes.Courtly Romance.Exegesis.Female Spirituality.Fiction.Use of images.Vernacular Literature.Wolfram von Eschenbach.Literature, MedievalAppreciation.German literatureHistory and criticism.French literatureHistory and criticismWomen and literatureHistoryWomenReligious lifeHistory.WomenHistoryWomenBooks and readingHistory.809.021Powell Morgan1959-964434MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910404141903321Gender, reading, and truth in the twelfth century2187932UNINA