Medievalists.net » Christina of Markyate http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Christina of Markyate Psalter – A Modern Legend: On the Purpose of the St. Albans Psalter http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/07/christina-markyate-psalter-modern-legend-purpose-st-albans-psalter/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/07/christina-markyate-psalter-modern-legend-purpose-st-albans-psalter/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2014 22:15:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50236 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/07/christina-markyate-psalter-modern-legend-purpose-st-albans-psalter/feed/ 0 The St Albans Psalter now online http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/28/the-st-albans-psalter-now-online/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/28/the-st-albans-psalter-now-online/#comments Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:47:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47096 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/28/the-st-albans-psalter-now-online/feed/ 0 To Take Care of the Monks, Take Care of Christina: Christina of Markyate and the Medieval Spiritual/Material Market http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/24/to-take-care-of-the-monks-take-care-of-christina-christina-of-markyate-and-the-medieval-spiritualmaterial-market/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/24/to-take-care-of-the-monks-take-care-of-christina-christina-of-markyate-and-the-medieval-spiritualmaterial-market/#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:30:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42323 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/24/to-take-care-of-the-monks-take-care-of-christina-christina-of-markyate-and-the-medieval-spiritualmaterial-market/feed/ 0 Transitional Holiness in the Twelfth Century: The Social and Spiritual Identity of Domina Christina of Markyate http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/13/transitional-holiness-in-the-twelfth-century-the-social-and-spiritual-identity-of-domina-christina-of-markyate/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/13/transitional-holiness-in-the-twelfth-century-the-social-and-spiritual-identity-of-domina-christina-of-markyate/#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:50:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38676 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/13/transitional-holiness-in-the-twelfth-century-the-social-and-spiritual-identity-of-domina-christina-of-markyate/feed/ 0 Patterns of Polemic: Medieval Women and Christian Doctrinal Reform http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/06/patterns-of-polemic-medieval-women-and-christian-doctrinal-reform/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/06/patterns-of-polemic-medieval-women-and-christian-doctrinal-reform/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:11:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25069 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/06/patterns-of-polemic-medieval-women-and-christian-doctrinal-reform/feed/ 0 Illuminating the Soul: Religious Enclosure and the Validation of Mystical Experience in The Life of Christina of Markyate and The Book of Margery Kempe http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/25/illuminating-the-soul-religious-enclosure-and-the-validation-of-mystical-experience-in-the-life-of-christina-of-markyate-and-the-book-of-margery-kempe/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/25/illuminating-the-soul-religious-enclosure-and-the-validation-of-mystical-experience-in-the-life-of-christina-of-markyate-and-the-book-of-margery-kempe/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:16:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=17560 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 […]

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