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xix, 292, [1] p. : ill. 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. edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells. "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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. e------ Johnson, Penelope D. (Penelope Delafield) 1938- Religion and sociology Europe History To 1500 Monastic and religious life History Middle Ages, 600-1500 Europe Religious life and customs BL690 .N45 2009eb 274/.03 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10349335 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10349335 CaPaEBR 090219 ebr10349335