Women's Lives

Nahir I. Otaño Gracia is an assistant professor of English at the University of New Mexico, and a member at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her frameworks include the global North Atlantic – Britain, Iberia, and Scandinavia – and critical identity studies.Daniel Armenti works on medieval representations of gender and expressions of trauma. He is a visiting lecturer in Italian at the College of the Holy Cross.

• IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionNahir I. Otano Gracia and Daniel ArmentiIElizabeth Petroff and Mysticism1Women and Mysticism in the Medieval World Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff2Male Confessors and Female Penitents: Possibilities for Dialogue Elizabeth Alvilda PetroffIISelf-Representation3The Empowerment of Teresa de Cartagena through Her Patroness Juana de MendozaBorja de Cossio4Hildegardian Remixes: Hildegard von Bingen and the Appropriation of Auctoritas Andres Amitai Wilson5Language and Trance TheatreRebeca Sanmartin BastidaIIIReception6Smuggled Balsam and the Inscription of Memory: Hugeberc von Hildesheim and the Pilgrimage of Saint WillibaldSusan Signe Morrison7Gender, Genre and Collaboration in the Life of Ida of NivellesBarbara Zimbalist8History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman WarriorLan Dong9A Woman Mystic in Pre-Islamic North Africa: Al Kahina in the Futuh MisrDenise K. FiliosIV Appropriation10When Romance and Hagiography Meet: Inventing Saintly Women in The South English LegendaryMeriem Pages11Selfless Acts of Salvation as Self-Glorification: Saving the Prostitute in Hrotsvith's PlaysMadalina Meirosu12Liturgy and the Performance of the Mystical SelfClaire Taylor Jones

This volume in honor of Elizabeth Petroff presents an exciting array of work focused on medieval women, mostly mystics, from Asia, North Africa, and Europe, alongside the writings of Petroff herself. . . an apt tribute to Petroff's groundbreaking work as it covers a widespread of medieval women and topics related to their lives. Moreover, it expands on earlier studies of medieval women by going beyond European borders. It is gratifying to read work by scholars, many of whom studied under Petroff, who will extend research on medieval women in new directions in upcoming years.