Alexandra Verini
Biographic Data
| ID | 1069851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Verini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Verini |
| SIGNATURE | VERINI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ashoka University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6499-429X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Women's Lives
Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages
Sister acts
This article draws into comparative conversation Rumer Godden's 1939 novel about nuns in the Himalayas, Black Narcissus , and the records of real‐world nuns from the Loreto order in India. Through this comparison, we shed light on the under‐studied field of nuns in India and on the intersection of gender and colonialism during the later period of colonial rule. Reading fiction against historical archives, we find that a novel that has been lauded…
Celebrating Fifty Years of Feminist Studies
"In celebration of fifty years since Feminist Studies began publishing, in 1972, we asked a selection of authors to convey what having their work published in Feminist Studies has meant for them, both professionally as well as personally. Following are their responses."
Pathologies of Love
Performing Community and Place in the St Albans Psalter
This paper focuses on the intersection of performance, community and space in the twelfth-century St Albans Psalter (Hildesheim, Dombibliothek, MS St Godehard 1). While this psalter is typically read in terms of its designation for the anchoress Christina of Markyate, this essay focuses on its capacity as a communal production. Beginning with the Anglo-Norman Vie de St Alexis, in which the oral performance of a letter transforms a beggar into a s…
Medieval Models of Female Friendship in Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies and Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe
This essay examines radical models of female friendship in the works of French author Christine de Pizan and English mystic Margery Kempe. It argues that the proto-feminist friendships that these authors represent engage with classical theories of male friendship derived from Cicero and Aristotle and continued into the Christian era, but they ultimately reveal the deficiencies of such theories and instead propose more multicultural and socially e…
Medieval Models of Female Friendship in Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies and Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe
This essay examines radical models of female friendship in the works of French author Christine de Pizan and English mystic Margery Kempe. It argues that the proto-feminist friendships that these authors represent engage with classical theories of male friendship derived from Cicero and Aristotle and continued into the Christian era, but they ultimately reveal the deficiencies of such theories and instead propose more multicultural and socially e…
Performing Community and Place in the St Albans Psalter
This paper focuses on the intersection of performance, community and space in the twelfth-century St Albans Psalter (Hildesheim, Dombibliothek, MS St Godehard 1). While this psalter is typically read in terms of its designation for the anchoress Christina of Markyate, this essay focuses on its capacity as a communal production. Beginning with the Anglo-Norman Vie de St Alexis, in which the oral performance of a letter transforms a beggar into a s…
Medieval Models of Female Friendship in Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies and Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe
This essay examines radical models of female friendship in the works of French author Christine de Pizan and English mystic Margery Kempe. It argues that the proto-feminist friendships that these authors represent engage with classical theories of male friendship derived from Cicero and Aristotle and continued into the Christian era, but they ultimately reveal the deficiencies of such theories and instead propose more multicultural and socially e…
Pathologies of Love
Celebrating Fifty Years of Feminist Studies
"In celebration of fifty years since Feminist Studies began publishing, in 1972, we asked a selection of authors to convey what having their work published in Feminist Studies has meant for them, both professionally as well as personally. Following are their responses."
Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages
Sister acts
This article draws into comparative conversation Rumer Godden's 1939 novel about nuns in the Himalayas, Black Narcissus , and the records of real‐world nuns from the Loreto order in India. Through this comparison, we shed light on the under‐studied field of nuns in India and on the intersection of gender and colonialism during the later period of colonial rule. Reading fiction against historical archives, we find that a novel that has been lauded…
Women's Lives
Art (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Medieval Literature and History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works)