UID:
almafu_9960966113902883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 210 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
1-80010-294-1
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1-80010-295-X
Content:
Women are frequently depicted as unpredictable, difficult to categorise and prone to transformation in medieval religious writings. Water is equally elusive: rivers, wells and seas slip and slide out of the readers' grasp as they alter in metaphorical meaning. This book considers a large span of watery images in a small cluster of late-medieval devotional writings by and for women, in order to explore the association between women and water in the medieval religious imagination. Using writings by Aelred of Rievaulx, Julian of Norwich and a number of anonymous translators - as well as medical, scientific, and encyclopaedic works - it argues for water as an all-purpose metaphor with a particularly resonance for them.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2021.
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Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: In Search of Transformative Waters -- Chapter One: A Very 'Able' Element -- Chapter Two: Cleaning the Soul -- Chapter Three: Speech and Scripture -- Chapter Four: Transformative Immersion -- Chapter Five: Blood and Water -- Conclusion: Reading Water -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgements.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84384-612-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800102941
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781800102941/type/BOOK
