{"product_id":"translating-christ-in-the-middle-ages-gender-authorship-and-the-visionary-text-9780268202200","title":"Translating Christ in the Middle Ages: Gender, Authorship, and the Visionary Text","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis study reveals how women's visionary texts played a central role within medieval discourses of authorship, reading, and devotion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, women across northern Europe began committing their visionary conversations with Christ to the written word. Translating Christ in this way required multiple transformations: divine speech into human language, aural event into textual artifact, visionary experience into linguistic record, and individual encounter into communal repetition. This ambitious study shows how women's visionary texts form an underexamined literary tradition within medieval religious culture. Barbara Zimbalist demonstrates how, within this tradition, female visionaries developed new forms of authorship, reading, and devotion. Through these transformations, the female visionary authorized herself and her text, and performed a rhetorical \u003ci\u003eimitatio Christi\u003c\/i\u003e that offered models of interpretive practice and spoken devotion to her readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis literary-historical tradition has not yet been fully recognized on its own terms. By exploring its development in hagiography, visionary texts, and devotional literature, Zimbalist shows how this literary mode came to be not only possible but widespread and influential. She argues that women's visionary translation reconfigured traditional hierarchies and positions of spiritual power for female authors and readers in ways that reverberated throughout late-medieval literary and religious cultures. In translating their visionary conversations with Christ into vernacular text, medieval women turned themselves into authors and devotional guides, and formed their readers into textual communities shaped by gendered visionary experiences and spoken \u003ci\u003eimitatio Christi\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComparing texts in Latin, Dutch, French, and English, \u003ci\u003eTranslating Christ in the Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e explores how women's visionary translation of Christ's speech initiated larger transformations of gendered authorship and religious authority within medieval culture. The book will interest scholars in different linguistic and religious traditions in medieval studies, history, religious studies, and women's and gender studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Zimbalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268202200","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710615326857,"sku":"9780268202200","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_38637eed-c148-4a24-8848-4d5daeb6ba1d.jpg?v=1719539921","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/translating-christ-in-the-middle-ages-gender-authorship-and-the-visionary-text-9780268202200","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}