Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa

Biographic Data

ID5400714
NAMENaoë Kukita Yoshikawa
GIVEN NAMESNaoë Kukita
FAMILY NAMEYoshikawa
SIGNATUREYOSHIKAWA N K
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Women and Medieval Literary Culture

    Open AccessElaine Treharne, Mary Dockray‐Miller et al.BOOKWomen and Medieval Literary Culture2023

    Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic literary culture, it places British writing in wider…

  • Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages

    Sue ca /21 Jh Niebrzydowski, Liz ca /21 Jh Herbert McAvoy et al.EDITORBOOKWomen's Literary Cultures in the…2023

  • Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages

    Margaret Healy-Varley, Anne Mouron et al.EDITORBOOKWomen and Devotional Literature…2023

  • Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture

    Naoe Kukita, Dominic Watts et al.EDITORBOOKMedicine, Religion and Gender in…2015

  • Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture

    Open AccessNaoë Yoshikawa Kukita, Naoë Kukita YoshikawaBOOKMedicine, Religion and Gender in…2015Cited by: 2

    The facial disfigurement of women, whether through deliberate mutilation, accidental injury or the ravages of disease, was and still is a subject that evokes strong reactions, both positive (sympathy for the victim, attempts at rehabilitation and/or reconstruction of the damaged features, psychological counselling) and negative (shock or repulsion at the appearance of the victim, the passing of judgement or calculation of fault that led to the di…

  • The Making of The Book of Margery Kempe

    Naoë Kukita YoshikawaARTICLEEnglish Studies2011Cited by: 1References: 3

    Devotion to the Holy Spirit was a fundamental aspect of the Christian faith in the late Middle Ages and discretio spirituum was understood as a prerequisite for fully embracing the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The problem of discretio spirituum is embedded in the entirety of Margery's Book, which bears witness to the way the ideological political struggles in which clerical authority increasingly cast doubt upon female spiritual experience. Lying be…

  • The Jerusalem Pilgrimage

    Naoë Kukita YoshikawaARTICLEEnglish Studies2005Cited by: 1References: 2

    The Book of Margery Kempe 1 owes its shape to Margery's spiritual processes, which are both linear and circular, literal and symbolic. A consideration of the Jerusalem pilgrimage which Margery unde

  • The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England

    E A Jones, ALEXANDRA BARRATT et al.EDITORBOOKMedieval Mystical Tradition in…2004

    The regular meetings resumed, here with particular focus on Julian of Norwich, and Syon Abbey and the Bridgettines. The latest volume of proceedings in the series initiated by Marion Glasscoe in 1980 shares with its predecessors a concentrated focus on the English mystical authors and the reception of their continental contemporaries in medieval England. At the same time, it bears witness to the range of disciplinary approaches - literary, histor…