Liminal Performance in Hali Meiðhad
As an epistle for virgins, the thirteenth-century text Hali Meiðhad facilitates the reader's embodied simulation of the suffering of an anguished, nonvirginal woman. The reader thus inhabits an uncomfortably liminal space between spectatorship and performance. This essay will focus on anchori...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn State Univ. Press
[2016]
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Journal of medieval religious cultures
Year: 2016, Volume: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 28-43 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KCA Monasticism; religious orders NBE Anthropology NCF Sexual ethics |
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| Summary: | As an epistle for virgins, the thirteenth-century text Hali Meiðhad facilitates the reader's embodied simulation of the suffering of an anguished, nonvirginal woman. The reader thus inhabits an uncomfortably liminal space between spectatorship and performance. This essay will focus on anchoritic readership of this epistle, a critical decision lent support by the text's linguistic and codicological associations. It will examine an anchoress's embodied simulation of pain in reading Hali Meiðhad, after interrogating her liminal position as both performer and spectator. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-9650 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of medieval religious cultures
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.42.1.0028 |