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  • 2 - Prayer for the Dead:

  • from Part I - Entwined Lives and Multiple Identities
  • Edited by Julie Barrau, University of Cambridge, David Bates, University of East Anglia
  • Book:
    Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
    Published online:
    24 September 2021
    Print publication:
    07 October 2021, pp 25-41

  • Summary

    This chapter highlights women’s roles in medieval death practice, arguing that women’s traditional care for the dying and dead and their social role as mourners were consistent with, and in fact fundamental to, the spiritual role of nuns as valued intercessors. As custodians of family memory, women were central to medieval remembering; however, nuns have typically been seen as marginal to the monastic practices of liturgical memoria – the ritualized prayer for the dead that is generally thought to have become the specialised work of ordained monks by the Central Middle Ages. Focusing on the commemorative and intercessory roles of women as wives and mothers, the place of women in biblical narratives of the Passion and Resurrection and the social and spiritual contributions of female monasticism, this chapter argues that women’s ties to death, as both a practical and a spiritual matter, provided nuns with a central and valued role in medieval memorial practice and intercessory prayer.

  • Heloise: A Christian View on Ethics and Love

  • Jane Duran
  • Journal:
    New Blackfriars / Volume 92 / Issue 1037 / January 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 2024, pp. 35-45
    Print publication:
    January 2011
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  • The writings of Heloise are examined for their philosophical content, with special reference to the notions of friendship and love. The work of Mews, Dronke, Clanchy and others is cited, and it is concluded that Heloise's gifts as a writer and thinker have been overlooked and merit more careful examination.