Catherine Innes-Parker

Contact Information
Education B.A., McMaster, 1979, M.A., McMaster, 1981, Ph.D., Memorial, 1992
Office M-219
Email cinnesparker@upei.ca
Phone 1 (902) 566-0428
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Research Interests:

My current research focuses on women's literacy in the middle ages. I study medieval attitudes towards women's reading in texts written by, for, and about women, and patterns of manuscript ownership to determine what women actually read.

 

Citations:

  1. "The Legacy of Ancrene Wisse: Translations, Adaptations, Influences and Readers." in A Companion to Ancrene Wisse, ed. Yoko Wada. London: Boydell and Brewer (Forthcoming).
  2. "Mi bodi henge wix zi bodi neiled o rode: The Gendering of the Pauline Concept of Crucifixion with Christ in Medieval Devotional Prose for Women." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 28:1 (1999) 49-62.
  3. "Subversion and Conformity in Julian of Norwich: Authority, Vision and the Motherhood of God." Mystics Quarterly 23:2 (June, 1997) 7-35.
  4. "Ancrene Wisse and ye Wohunge of Ure Lauerd: The Thirteenth-Century Female Reader and the Lover-Knight." In Women, the Book and the Godly, ed. Jane Taylor and Lesley Smith. London: Boydell and Brewer, 1995 (pp.137-147).
  5. "The Lady and the King: Ancrene Wisse's Parable of the Royal Wooing Re-examined." English Studies 75 (1994) 509-522.