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Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition honors Ronald B. Herzman, SUNY Geneseo Distinguished Teaching Professor of English. Over more than fifty years Professor Herzman has been a major force in the promotion of medieval studies within academe and public humanities. This volume of essays by his colleagues, students, and friends celebrates Professor Herzman's outstanding career and reflects the wide range of his scholarly and pedagogical influence, from biblical and early Christian topics to Dante, Langland, and Shakespeare.

Eschatology --- Future, The --- Apocalyptic literature --- History of doctrines. --- Religious aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Christian eschatology. --- Dante. --- Shakespeare. --- medieval art. --- medieval women.

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Hagiography was one of the most prolific narrative genres in the Middle Ages. Jacobus de Voragine's 'Golden Legend' (c. 1260), the most popular compendium, was translated into every language in Western Europe. In the medieval Iberian peninsula, the number of conserved hagiographic documents dwarfs those belonging to other narrative genres. This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sanctorals, and the twenty-five female saints witnessed therein. Their lives furnished exemplary models for women inside and outside the Church, and tell stories of maidens tortured by pagan sovereigns, prostitutes, mothers who see their sons martyred, and women who dress as men in order to avoid being married off to the nearest suitor. This study challenges an understanding of these women as passive recipients of social and spiritual influence by re-situating female authority within the context of vision, language, and performativity. Included in the study are transcriptions of twenty-two previously unedited lives. Emma Gatland is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge.

Women saints --- Christian hagiography. --- Spanish literature --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Saints, Women --- Saints --- History and criticism. --- Jacobus, --- Europe. --- Female Agency. --- Female Saints. --- Female authority. --- Feminism. --- Gender studies. --- Gender. --- Golden Legend. --- Hagiography. --- Medieval Spanish literature. --- Medieval history. --- Medieval women. --- Pagan. --- Religion. --- Saint. --- Sanctoral. --- Women's history. --- Women.

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In Acts of Care, Sara Ritchey recovers women's health care work by identifying previously overlooked tools of care: healing prayers, birthing indulgences, medical blessings, liturgical images, and penitential practices. Ritchey demonstrates that women in premodern Europe were both deeply engaged with and highly knowledgeable about health, the body, and therapeutic practices, but their critical role in medieval health care has been obscured because scholars have erroneously regarded the evidence of their activities as religious rather than medical.The sources for identifying the scope of medieval women's health knowledge and healthcare practice, Ritchey argues, are not found in academic medical treatises. Rather, she follows fragile traces detectable in liturgy, miracles, poetry, hagiographic narratives, meditations, sacred objects, and the daily behaviors that constituted the world as well as in testaments and land transactions from hospitals and leprosaria established and staffed by beguines and Cistercian nuns.Through its surprising use of alternate sources, Acts of Care reconstructs the vital caregiving practices of religious women in the southern Low Countries, reconnecting women's therapeutic authority into the everyday world of late medieval healthcare.

Medical care --- Women healers, Medieval --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- , psalters, medieval medicine, Low Countries, hagiography, miracles. --- Beguines, Cistercians, medical charms. --- Medieval women healers --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Public health

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"This book centers on a fascinating woman, Clare of Rimini (c. 1260 to c. 1324-29), whose story is preserved in a fascinating text. Composed by an anonymous Franciscan, the Life of the Blessed Clare of Rimini is the earliest known saint's life originally written in Italian, and one of the few such lives to be written while its subject was still living. It tells the story of a controversial woman, set against the background of her roiling city, her star-crossed family, and the tumultuous political and religious landscape of her age."--Publisher website.

Catholic women --- Catholic women. --- Christian heresies --- History --- Middle Ages. --- Clare, --- 600-1500. --- Italy --- Rimini (Italy) --- History. --- Christian saints --- History and criticism. --- Civilization --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Women, Catholic --- Christian women --- Clare of Rimini. --- Franciscan. --- Italian communes. --- Italian language. --- biography. --- denunciation. --- epiphany. --- female spirituality. --- hagiography. --- heresy. --- historical context. --- medieval women Italy history. --- religious culture. --- saints. --- saints’ lives. --- translation. --- visions.

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These translated letters and texts composed for younger and older women in twelfth-century convents illuminate the powerful medieval ideals of virginity and chastity. They show that the literature of virginity and chastity could offer a wide range of role models and precedents for women in the medieval church, both in their spiritual formation and in the practical concerns of their monastic lives. Abelard's history of women's roles in the church and his letter on women's education, both written for Heloise in her work as abbess, are seen here alongside previously untranslated letters and texts for abbesses and nuns in England and France. Osbert of Clare, Goscelin of St Bertin and the women of Barking together with Peter the Venerable and the women of Marcigny offer fresh comparisons and contexts for the famous correspondence of Heloise and Abelard, as well as insight into the rich literary and cultural life of other women and men in religion. An interpretive essay explores the practical and spiritual engagement of women's convents with medieval commemorative and memorial practices, showing that the professional concern of women religious with death goes far beyond the stereotype of nuns as dead to the world, or enclosed in living death. Vera Morton gained an MA in Medieval Studies at the University of Liverpool in 1994. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne is Professor of English at Fordham University, NY.

Christian religious orders --- anno 1100-1199 --- Monastic and religious life of women --- History --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Sources --- Virginity --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Chastity --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Ethics --- Evangelical counsels --- Sexual abstinence --- Sexual ethics --- Defloration --- First sexual experiences --- Monastic life --- Monasticism and religious orders for women --- Spiritual life --- Chastity. --- Frauenbildung. --- Nuns --- Nuns. --- Religiöse Erziehung. --- Middle Ages. --- 600-1500. --- England. --- Frankreich. --- Abelard. --- Convents. --- Letters. --- Medieval Women. --- Religious Life. --- Twelfth-Century. --- Virginity.