Christina of Markyate Archives

Book Review: A Medieval Woman’s Companion by Susan Signe Morrison

March 8, 2017 by Sandra Alvarez

Susan Signe Morrison’s book, “A Medieval Woman’s Companion” brings the contributions of medieval women, famous and obscure, to the forefront in this fantastic introductory text.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: 2017 Books, Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Saxon England, Childbirth in the Middle Ages, Christianity in the Middle Ages, Christina of Markyate, Christine de Pizan, Early Middle Ages, Education in the Middle Ages, England, Feminist, Gender in the Middle Ages, Gudrun Osvifsdottir, High Middle Ages, Hildegard von Bingen, Joan of Arc, Marriage in the Middle Ages, Medieval France, Medieval Iceland, Medieval Medicine, Medieval Religious Life, Medieval Women, Nuns, Queen Emma, Saint Birgitta, Teaching about the Middle Ages, Teresa de Cartagena, Trota of Salerno

The Christina of Markyate Psalter – A Modern Legend: On the Purpose of the St. Albans Psalter

June 7, 2014 by Medievalists.net

The early 12th century psalter manuscript of St. Albans in Hertfordshire, which is currently in the possession of the church parish of St. Godehard in Hildesheim, Germany, has attracted much attention due to the richness of its illustration.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Christina of Markyate, Medieval England, Medieval Religious Life, Twelfth Century

The St Albans Psalter now online

January 28, 2014 by Medievalists.net

The St Albans Psalter, one of the most impressive medieval manuscripts created in twelfth-century England, has been digitized and is now available to view for free online.

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To Take Care of the Monks, Take Care of Christina: Christina of Markyate and the Medieval Spiritual/Material Market

July 24, 2013 by Sandra Alvarez

In this essay I will delineate two of these emphases: (1) Christina’s powerful interaction with boundaries and the spaces they demarcate, and (2) the material/spiritual economy that develops between Christina and Geoffrey, the Abbot of the St. Albans Monastery. I will then argue that these emphases together form a message that might have been aimed at The Life’s monastic (and to some extent aristocratic) audience, perhaps even the abbots who succeeded Geoffrey.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Benedictine, Biography, Christianity in the Middle Ages, Christina of Markyate, High Middle Ages, Medieval Hagiography, Medieval Literature, Medieval Monasticism, Medieval Religious Life, Medieval Women, Nuns, Twelfth Century

Transitional Holiness in the Twelfth Century: The Social and Spiritual Identity of Domina Christina of Markyate

January 13, 2013 by Sandra Alvarez

Visions flourish within particular domestic contexts and disciplines, and Christina enables us to glimpse a sub-culture of visionary experience in twelfth-century England, which rarely shows up in sources and is given little authority in the dominant narratives.

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Patterns of Polemic: Medieval Women and Christian Doctrinal Reform

September 6, 2011 by Sandra Alvarez

Patterns of Polemic: Medieval Women and Christian Doctrinal Reform Green, Robert Published Online in, “My Life As A Cat” (2009) Abstract The Christianity of medieval England and continental Europe was a fragmented one. The proliferation of monastic communities allowed for individualized interpretations of Christian practice to flourish, during the same period that Christian communities and institutions […]

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Illuminating the Soul: Religious Enclosure and the Validation of Mystical Experience in The Life of Christina of Markyate and The Book of Margery Kempe

February 25, 2011 by Sandra Alvarez

Illuminating the Soul: Religious Enclosure and the Validation of Mystical Experience in The Life of Christina of Markyateand The Book of Margery Kempe Roberts, Ruth R. Marginalia, Vol. 3 (2006) Abstract The mind has a more extensive and expansive leisure within the six surfaces of a room than it could gain outside by traversing the […]