{"id":942,"date":"2020-05-08T11:40:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T11:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/?p=942"},"modified":"2020-05-11T12:11:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T12:11:30","slug":"an-introduction-to-the-letter-of-ceasaria-of-arles-to-radegund-of-poitiers-by-hope-williard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/videos\/an-introduction-to-the-letter-of-ceasaria-of-arles-to-radegund-of-poitiers-by-hope-williard\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to the Letter of Caesaria of Arles to Radegund of Poitiers, by Hope Williard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"An Introduction to Women&#039;s Letters in the Dark Ages: Caesaria to Radegund\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H-zoiY2B-gQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staff.lincoln.ac.uk\/d7541802-319f-4d4a-b263-6d8fd78305ab\">Dr. Hope Williard, University of Lincoln<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Readings and Resources (freely available online)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Joan M. Ferrante, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu\/woman\/25209.html\">Caesaria, abbess of Arles\u2019<\/a>, <em>Epistolae: Medieval Women\u2019s Latin Letters<\/em>. New York: Columbia University, 2014. <\/li><li>Professor Ferrante\u2019s translation of <a href=\"https:\/\/epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu\/letter\/915.html\">Caesaria&#8217;s letter to Radegund<\/a>. <\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bm-poitiers.fr\/Default\/digital-viewer\/c-1117076\">Poitiers, Bibl. Mun., MS 250, with beautiful illustrations of Radegund\u2019s life, has been fully digitized<\/a> and is available online<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bm-poitiers.fr\/Default\/digital-viewer\/c-1117076\">.<\/a><\/li><li>Erin T. Dailey, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/d-nb.info\/1058948059\/34\">Misremembering St. Radegund\u2019s Foundation of Sainte-Croix in Poitiers\u2019<\/a>, in <em>Erfahren, Erz\u00e4hlen, Erinnern: Narrativ Konstruktionen von Ged\u00e4chtnis und Generation in Antike und Mittelalter,<\/em> ed. Benjamin Pohl et al. (Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2012), pp. 117\u201340.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>What were the possibilities and limitations of monastic life for early medieval women?<\/li><li>What might this letter tell us about Merovingian women\u2019s literacy?<\/li><li>What is asceticism? How is it depicted in this letter?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bibliography (available as e-books through library subscriptions)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Angelo Di Berardino, ed. <em>Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity <\/em>(Downers\u2019 Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1994-2013), pp. 1:407 (biography of Caesaria) and 3:374 (biography of Radegund).<\/li><li>Jo Ann McNarama and John E. Halborg, with E. Gordon Whately, <em>Sainted Women of the Dark Ages <\/em>(Durham: Duke University Press, 1992), pp. 112-8.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Further Reading (available online through library subscriptions)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Magdalena Elizabeth Carrasco, \u201cSpirituality in Context: The Romanesque Illustrated Life of St. Radegund of Poitiers (Poitiers, Bibl. Mun., MS 250).\u201d <em>The Art Bulletin<\/em> 72: 3 (1990), pp. 414\u2013435.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Jennifer C. Edwards, <em>Superior Women: Medieval Female Authority in Poiters\u2019 Abbey of Sainte-Croix <\/em>(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 25-59.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To Cite This Page<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williard, Hope, \u201cAn Introduction to the Letter of Caesaria of Arles to Radegund of Poitiers,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Middle Ages for Educators<\/em>, May 8, 2020. Accessed[date]. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/?p=942\">http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/uncategorized\/an-introduction-to-the-letter-of-caesaria-of-arles-to-radegund-of-poitiers,-by-hope-williard\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Hope Williard, University of Lincoln Readings and Resources (freely available online) Joan M. Ferrante, \u2018Caesaria, abbess of Arles\u2019, Epistolae: Medieval Women\u2019s Latin Letters. New York: Columbia University, 2014. 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