Contents

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Christiana de Groot Preface to the English Edition

Kari Elisabeth Børresen and Adriana Valerio Foreword

Adriana Valerio Introduction. The Bible in the Center: The Renovatio Ecclesiae and the Emergence of Female Autonomy (Twelfth–Fifteenth Centuries)

PART I: THE BIBLE AND THE WOMEN: RECEPTION AND APPLICATION

• Gary Macy The Treatment of Women in the Scriptural Commentaries of the Twelfth–Thirteenth Centuries
• María Isabel Toro Pascua The Bible and Women in Spanish Didactic-Moral Literature
• Gemma Avenoza Women Who Read the Bible in Spanish Kingdoms during the Middle Ages: Christians and Jews
• Marina Benedetti The Bible, Women Heretics, and Inquisitors
• Dinora Corsi Women, the Bible, and the Demonology of the Fifteenth Century

PART II. WOMEN AND THE BIBLE: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS

1. STUDY AND CREATIVE INTERPRETATIONS

• Constant J. Mews and Carmel Posa Heloise’s Engagement with the Bible: A Continuing Journey
• Magda Motté The Bible and Poetry: A Biblical Epic by a Woman (Ava) and a Biblical Epic about a Woman (Judith)
• Kari Elisabeth Børresen Female Metaphors, From Scripture to Julian’s Showings
• Rosa María Parrinello Theodora Palaeologina and the Others: Women Scholars, Copyists, and Exegetes in Byzantium

2. MYSTICISM AND PROPHECY

• Valeria Ferrari Schiefer and Elisabeth Gössmam Biblical Interpretations in the Work of Hildegard of Bingen
• Martina Kreidler-Kos “Like Another Rachel, Always Remember your Resolution and Be Conscious of How You Began”: Clare of Assisi and the Bible
• Hildegund Keul The Bible as Center of Innovative God-Language in Mechthild of Magdeburg and Gertrude of Helfta
• Kari Elisabeth Børresen Scripture in Birgitta’s Revelations
• Rita Librandi Style and Translation of the Biblical Citations in the Letters of Catherine of Siena
• Maria Laura Giordano “The Wolf Shall Live with the Lamb” (Isa 11:6): The Defeat of a Converso Utopia in the Work of Teresa de Cartagena (1449–1478)

PART III. REPRESENTATIONS IN THE ARTS

• Andrea Taschl-Erber Apostle and Sinner: Medieval Receptions of Mary of Magdala
• Paola Vitolo The Image of Women and Narrative Strategies in the Hortus Deliciarum
• Claudia Poggi and Marina Santini The Bible in the Hortus Deliciarum
• Linda Maria Koldau Women, the Bible, and Music in the Middle Ages
• María Leticia Sánchez Hernández Women and the Bible: Iconography of a Relationship in the Lower Middle Ages

Bibliography

Contributors

The High Middle Ages

• Eds.
  Kari Elisabeth Børresen
• Adriana Valerio

Year 2015