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- 9781838196523
- 14 januari 2021
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Christina of Markyate was a gifted twelfth-century English woman, whose visions brought her local fame and who once owned the renowned St Albans Psalter. As a young girl she refused the sexual advances of the Bishop of Durham and ran away from home rather than consummate a forced marriage. Christina was hidden for years by rural hermits, developed a passionate attachment for one of her rescuers, and finally achieved the religious life she had always wanted, as a Prioress. The Abbot of St Albans came to rely on her spiritual gifts and commissioned a biography of her, but was she the saint he thought her to be?
In this carefully researched and insightful novel, Ruth Mohrman goes beyond the medieval account of Christina’s life to imagine a woman who was many things at once. A lover of beautiful things who spent years in poverty, a divine seer bound by the past, a woman pledged to chastity who had intimate relationships with powerful men. Haunted by the secrets she was obliged to keep, in Gold of Pleasure Christina finally finds a measure of peace in the place she least expects.
“Ruth Mohrman writes superbly. She conjures up her world in terms that are both medieval and modern, evoking not only the texture of political intrigue and everyday life in twelfth-century England but also Christina’s mix of self-assuredness and vulnerability as she negotiates the social and familial pressures that threaten her.” Ruth Evans, Dorothy McBride Orthwein Professor of English at St Louis University
“I really enjoyed Gold of Pleasure and found it a perhaps unlikely page turner! The writer has capitalised so well on the suspense potential in the original story that it was hard to take any break between the sections. The novel is beautifully written and brings to life details of the material and natural context of her story in ways that also provide insight into a complex and conflicted personality. I found the book so beautifully, in many ways, elusive, with so many discussable ambiguities.” Marion Glasscoe, editor for many years of The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England
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