Virginia Blanton
Virginia Blanton is a professor of English at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and eminent scholar in Anglo-Saxon studies.[1]
Life
She graduated from Southwestern College, with a B.A. in 1989; from Binghamton University with a M.A. in 1991, and Ph.D. in 1998.[2]
Her scholarly work has re-shaped conceptions of female spirituality in the early Middle Ages. Particularly in her work on saints' lives, Blanton has demonstrated that the lives of female saints such as Æthelthryth and their later cults offer powerful insights into the devotional lives of men and women in the Middle Ages. Her first book, Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Æthelthryth in Medieval England, 695–1615[3] received the Best First Book award from the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship in 2008.[4] Some of Blanton's later work focusses on the role of nuns in medieval book production and manuscript culture.
Works
- Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Æthelthryth in Medieval England, 695-1615. Penn State Press. 2007.; Penn State Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-271-04798-0
- Intertexts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture co-editor, presented to Paul E. Szarmach, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008, ISBN 978-0-86698-382-2
- V. Blanton, V. O'Mara, P. Stoop (eds.) Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue, Brepols, 2013, ISBN 978-2-503-53972-0
References
- ↑ "Virginia Blanton". University of Missouri, Department of English. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
- ↑ "Virginia Blanton". University of Missouri, Department of Women's & Gender Studies. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
- ↑ Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Æthelthryth in Medieval England, 695-1615 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007)
- ↑ Prize at hosted.lib.uiowa.edu
External links
- ""Faculty Profiles Series" – Virginia Blanton". January 29th, 2013. University of Missouri – Kansas City. Retrieved 16 March 2013.