LEADER 04037oam 22007214a 450 001 9910404141903321 005 20220128190616.0 010 $a1-64189-377-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781641893787 035 $a(CKB)4100000011301900 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse83429 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6419193 035 $a(DE-B1597)548859 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781641893787 035 $a(OCoLC)1198931016 035 $a(OCoLC)1175941119 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011301900 100 $a20200625d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century$eThe Woman in the Mirror /$fMorgan Powell 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2020 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (x, 419 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 225 1 $aMedieval media cultures 311 $a1-64189-378-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [385]-410) and index. 327 $aMutations 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 A?ventiure : the exposition of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival -- The heart, the wound, and the word--sacred and profane. 330 $aThe twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden interest in and legitimization of literature in these "vulgar tongues"? Until now, the answer has centred on the somewhat nebulous role of new female vernacular readers. Powell argues that a different appraisal of the same evidence offers a window onto something more momentous: not "women readers" but instead a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century. This woman is at the centre of a re-conception of Christian knowing, a veritable revolution in the mediation of knowledge and truth. By following this figure through detailed readings of key early works, Powell unveils a surprise, a new poetics of the body meant to embrace the capacities of new audiences and viewers of medieval literature and visual art. 410 0$aMedieval media cultures 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$xAppreciation 606 $aGerman literature$yMiddle High German, 1050-1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench literature$yTo 1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aWomen$xReligious life$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aWomen$zEurope$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 500-1500 606 $aWomen$xBooks and reading$zEurope$xHistory 610 $aChrétien de Troyes. 610 $aCourtly Romance. 610 $aExegesis. 610 $aFemale Spirituality. 610 $aFiction. 610 $aUse of images. 610 $aVernacular Literature. 610 $aWolfram von Eschenbach. 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval$xAppreciation. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xReligious life$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xBooks and reading$xHistory. 676 $a809.021 700 $aPowell$b Morgan$f1959-$0964434 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910404141903321 996 $aGender, reading, and truth in the twelfth century$92187932 997 $aUNINA