Table of Contents

Introduction: Barking's Lives, the Abbey and its Abbesses
Barking's Monastic School, Late Seventh to Early Twelfth Century: History, Saint Making and Literary Culture - Stephanie Hollis
The Saint-Maker and the Saint: Hildelith Creates Ethelburg - Lisa M.C. Weston
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Translation Ceremony for Saints Ethelburg, Hildelith, and Wulfhild - Kay Slocum
'The Ladies Have Made Me Quite Fat': Authors and Patrons at Barking Abbey - Thomas O'Donnell
'Sun num n'i vult dire a ore': Identity Matters at Barking Abbey - Delbert W. Russell
'Ce qu'ens li trovat, eut en sei': On the Equal Chastity of Queen Edith and King Edward in the Nun of Barking's La Vie d'Edouard Le Confesseur - Thelma Fenster
Body, Gender, and Nation in the Lives of Edward the Confessor - Jennifer N. Brown
Clemence and Catherine: The Life of St Catherine in its Norman and Anglo-Norman Context - Diane Auslander
Cicero, Aelred and Guernes: The Politics of Love in Clemence of Barking's Catherine - Donna Alfano Bussell
The Authority of Diversity: Communal Patronage in Le Gracial - Emma Berat
Keeping Body and Soul Together: The Charge to the Barking Cellaress - Alexandra Barratt
Rhythmic Liturgy, Embodiment and Female Authority in Barking's Easter Plays - Jill Stevenson
Liturgy as the Site of Creative Engagement: Contributions of the Nuns of Barking - Anne Bagnall Yardley
Afterword: Barking and the Historiography of Female Community - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
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About the Author

JENNIFER N. BROWN is Professor of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College. JENNIFER N. BROWN is Professor of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College. THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA.

Reviews

To be welcomed as a significant study of female literacy and monastic life in the Middle Ages.
*ENGLISH*

A strong resource.
*MAGISTRA 19.1, Summer 2013*

[E]minent scholars from various disciplines present a variety of topics and approaches, that, taken together, emphasize the abbey's importance. The result is a volume that merits a place alongside other works on women's religious culture in the Middle Ages. [...] Recommended.
*CHOICE*