TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Katherine Allen AU - Wells,Scott ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe: gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom T2 - Studies in the history of Christian traditions AV - BL690 .N45 2009eb U1 - 274/.03 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Johnson, Penelope D. KW - Religion and sociology KW - Europe KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Monastic and religious life KW - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Religious life and customs KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - "The essays in this collection are offered to Penelope D. Johnson ... on the occasion of her retirement"--Pref; "Most of the papers ... had their inception in a series of three panels convened in Pene's honor at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May of 2006."--Pref; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Gender, power, and patronage : the impact of Penelope D. Johnson on medieval studies ; Penelope D. Johnson, the Boswell thesis, and Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe; Katherine Allen Smith; Scott Wells --; Living with a saint : monastic identity, community, and the ideal of asceticism in the life of an Irish saint; Diane Peters Auslander --; A tale of two dioceses : prologues as letters in the Vitae authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpr�e; Christina Roukis-Stern --; "Within the walls of paradise" : space and community in the Vita of Umiliana de' Cerchi (1219-1246); Anne M. Schuchman --; Architectural mimesis and historical memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel; Katherine Allen Smith --; Holy women and the needle arts : piety, devotion, and stitching the sacred, ca. 500-1150; Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg --; The politics of gender and ethnicity in East Francia : the case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950; Scott Wells --; Noble women's power as reflected in the foundations of Cistercian houses for nuns in thirteenth-century Northern France : Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres; Constance Hoffman Berman --; "Inseparable companions" : Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise; Susan Valentine --; Book, body, and the construction of the self in the Taymouth hours; Kathryn A. Smith --; Abbott Erluin's blindness : the monastic implications of violent loss of sight; Susan Wade --; Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Ch�ateau-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault; Elizabeth A.R. Brown --; The matter of others : menstrual blood and uncontrolled semen in thirteenth-century kabbalists' polemic against Christians, "bad" Jews, and Muslims; Alexandra Cuffel; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10349335 ER -