Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture

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. KAY BRAINERD SLOCUM is Emerita Professor at Capital University, Ohio. THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA.

• Introduction: Barking's Lives, the Abbey and its AbbessesBarking's Monastic School, Late Seventh to Early Twelfth Century: History, Saint Making and Literary Culture - Stephanie HollisThe Saint-Maker and the Saint: Hildelith Creates Ethelburg - Lisa M.C. WestonGoscelin 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 FensterBody, Gender, and Nation in the Lives of Edward the Confessor - Jennifer N. BrownClemence and Catherine: The Life of St Catherine in its Norman and Anglo-Norman Context - Diane AuslanderCicero, Aelred and Guernes: The Politics of Love in Clemence of Barking's Catherine - Donna Alfano BussellThe Authority of Diversity: Communal Patronage in Le Gracial - Emma BeratKeeping Body and Soul Together: The Charge to the Barking Cellaress - Alexandra BarrattRhythmic Liturgy, Embodiment and Female Authority in Barking's Easter Plays - Jill StevensonLiturgy as the Site of Creative Engagement: Contributions of the Nuns of Barking - Anne Bagnall YardleyAfterword: Barking and the Historiography of Female Community - Jocelyn Wogan-BrowneBibliography

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