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KATERN 1 Ordernr. 060064 HOUSEHOLD, WOMEN, AND CHRISTIANITIES in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Page 1 Ordernr. 060064 MEDIEVAL WOMEN: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Editorial Board under the auspices of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Hull Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (University of Pittsburgh) Juliette Dor (Université de Liège) Constant J. Mews (Monash University) Anneke Mulder-Bakker (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) Barbara Newman (Northwestern University) Gabriella Signori (Universität Münster) Nicholas Watson (Harvard University) Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University) VOLUME 14 Page 2 Ordernr. 060064 HOUSEHOLD, WOMEN, AND CHRISTIANITIES in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Edited by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne H F Page 3 Ordernr. 060064 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Household, women, and Christianities in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. - (Medieval women : texts and contexts ; 14) 1.Women - Europe - Social conditions 2.Households - Europe - History - To 1500 3.Christian women - Religious life - Europe - History - To 1500 I.Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B. II.Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn 305.4'2'094'0902 ISBN-10: 2503517781 © 2005, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. D/2005/0095/134 ISBN: 2-503-51778-1 Printed in the E.U. on acid-free paper. Page 4 Ordernr. 060064 To Kari Børresen Page 5 Ordernr. 060064 Page 6 Ordernr. 060064 Contents Acknowledgements ix List of Abbreviations x Introduction Part I: Household, Women, and Lived Christianity 1 ANNEKE B. MULDER-BAKKER AND JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE The Household and the Desert: Monastic and Biological Communities 11 in the Lives of Melania the Younger KATE COOPER ‘Oikos-Ecclesiology’ and ‘Church Order’ in Eastern Christianity 37 EVA M. SYNEK The Icon Corner in Medieval Byzantium 71 JUDITH HERRIN Household and Empire: The Materfamilias 91 as Miles Christi in the Anonymous Handbook for Gregoria KATE COOPER Faith, Family, and Fortune: 109 The Effect of Conversion on Women in Scandinavia BIRGIT SAWYER Introduction Part II: Medieval Households 125 ANNEKE B. MULDER-BAKKER AND JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE Page 7 Ordernr. 060064 ‘Our Steward, St Jerome’: Theology and the Anglo-Norman Household 133 JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE The Monastery as a Household within the Universal Household 167 ELSE MARIE WIBERG PEDERSEN The Household as a Site of Civic and Religious Instruction: 191 Two Household Books from Late Medieval Brabant ANNEKE B. MULDER-BAKKER The Bolton Hours of York: Female Domestic Piety and the Public Sphere 215 SARAH REES JONES AND FELICITY RIDDY Page 8 Ordernr. 060064 Acknowledgements T his volume owes its existence to a series of conferences on Women in the Christian Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Reformation, funded by the European Union’s European Science Foundation (ESF) over 1992–98. Uniquely in the experience of many of the participants, these conferences did not demand immediate production of results in the form of conference papers: modelled on science conferences, they were above all concerned to offer opportunities to hear from as many researchers as possible. They combined generous time for structured discussion with particular stress on communication between older and younger scholars. All the participants in the ESF conferences, including the contributors and editors of the present volume, remain indebted to the ESF for their funding and sup- port of the conference series. The dedication of this volume expresses our gratitude to an outstanding scholar and personality: Kari Børresen. Her scholarship has been hugely influential in raising and articulating the problems of conceiving Christian doctrine and history in simply androcentric terms, and it was her vision and energy that inaugurated and sustained the ESF conference series, the first such to deal expli- citly with women’s historical and cultural roles. All involved owe her a great debt. Page 9 Ordernr. 060064 Abbreviations EETS Early English Text Society ES Extra Series OS Original Series PG Patrologia Cursus Completus, Series Graeca, ed. by J.-P. Migne (Paris, 1861–64) PL Patrologia Cursus Completus, Series Latina, ed. by J.-P. Migne (Paris, 1861–64) RS Rolls Series SC Sources Chrétiennes Page 10
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