CHAPTER 2 WOMEN’S MYSTICAL FRIENDSHIPS: MARGERY KEMPE AND MIRABAI

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
5. ABBREVIATIONS xi
6. INTRODUCTION: MEDIEVAL WOMEN’S LITERARY CULTURES AND THINKING BEYOND THE LOCAL 1
7. PART 1 COMPARISON AND DIALOGUE
8. CHAPTER 1 SPEAKING ACROSS THE STARS: PARALLEL AFFECTIVE COMMUNITIES IN ISLAMIC AND CHRISTIAN HAGIOGRAPHY 23
9. CHAPTER 2 WOMEN’S MYSTICAL FRIENDSHIPS: MARGERY KEMPE AND MIRABAI 43
10. CHAPTER 3 WOMEN’S WRITING IN THE JAPANESE HEIAN PERIOD: A MEDIEVAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE EAST AND WEST 61
11. PART 2 CONSTRUCTING GENDER AND GENRE
12. CHAPTER 4 THE GENRE OF THE LATE MEDIEVAL PERSONALISED ORTHODOX SLAVIC WOMEN’S MISCELLANY: THREE ‘EXISTENTIAL’ QUESTIONS 83
13. CHAPTER 5 THE ROLE OF KISAENG SIJO POETS IN MEDIEVAL KOREAN LITERATURE 103
14. CHAPTER 6 RĀBI‘A AL-‘ADAWIYYA: GENDER, AUTHORITY AND PARADOX IN ‘ATTĀR’S TADHKIRAT AL-AWLIYĀ’ AND THE MANTIQ AL-TAYR 123
15. CHAPTER 7 DECEPTION, INFANTICIDE, AND THE MAKING OF A FEMALE SAINT: A LOOK AT THE GÄDL KRƏSTOS ŚÄMRA 141
16. PART 3 SAINTLY PERFORMANCE AND MARIAN PIETY
17. CHAPTER 8 ‘OF OUR LADY THASSUMPCION’: A EUROPEAN CONTEXT FOR THE WORSHIPFUL WIVES OF CHESTER AND THEIR MARIAN PLAY 157
18. CHAPTER 9 MARY AND ELIZABETH: MALE PERSPECTIVES OF FEMALE-CODED PIETY IN OFFICES FOR THE VISITATION 175
19. CHAPTER 10 SPEAKING INTERNATIONALLY IN FEMALE COMMUNITIES ON THE EASTERN BORDERS OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE 193
20. CHAPTER 11 TEXTUAL PHANTOMS AND SPECTRAL PRESENCES: THE COMING TO REST OF MECHTHILD OF HACKEBORN’S WRITING IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 209
21. CHAPTER 12 NEGOTIATING THE ABJECT AND THE SUBLIME: THE CENTRALITY OF DISCOURSE COMMUNITIES WITHIN WOMEN’S MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE 225
22. PART 4 EVIDENCE AND THE ARCHIVES: REVISITING AND RECONSIDERING
23. CHAPTER 13 ‘IC ÞÆT SECGAN MÆG’: WOMEN, SONG, STORY, PRESENCE 243
24. CHAPTER 14 IN THE UNDERGROWTH: LLWYN A PHERTH AND SEXUAL DEVIANCY IN MEDIEVAL WALES 261
25. CHAPTER 15 ‘I SHALL SEND YW MONEY TO BY SUCH STUFE AS I WULL HAUE’: THE PASTON SHOPPERS 277
26. AFTERWORD: INTERSECTIONALITY AND COALITIONS 293
27. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 303
28. BIBLIOGRAPHY 309
29. INDEX 343