Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women

1. Introduction
Margaret Cotter-Lynch, Brad Herzog

2. Nuns on Parade: Memorializing Women in Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa
Helene Scheck

3. Mnemonic Sanctity and the Ladder of Reading: Notker’s “in Natale Sanctarum Feminarum”
Margaret Cotter-Lynch

4. Envisioning a Saint: Visions in the Miracles of Saint Margaret of Scotland
Catherine Keene

5. Secret Designs/Public Shapes: Ekphrastic Tensions in Hildegard’s Scivias
Claire Barbetti

6. Imitating the Imagined: Clemence of Barking’s Life of St. Catherine
Barbara Zimbalist

7. Memory, Identity, and Women’s Representation in the Portuguese Reception of Vitae Patrum: Winning a Name
Ana Maria Machado

8. “In Mei Memoriam Facietis”: Remembering Ritual and Refiguring “Woman” in Gertrud the Great of Helfta’s Exercitia Spiritualia
Ella Johnson

9. Making a Place: Imitatio Mariae in Julian of Norwich’s Self-Construction
Elissa Hansen

10. Portrait of a Holy Life: Mnemonic Inventiveness in the Book of Margery Kempe
Brad Herzog

Keywords: History, Cultural History, European History, History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Literature, Social History, Gender Studies