Medieval Women's WritingJohn Wiley & Sons, 18 abr 2013 - 216 páginas Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France, Clemence of Barking, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and the Paston women are discussed alongside the Old English lives of women saints, The Life of Christina of Markyate, the St Albans Psalter, and the legends of women saints by Osbern Bokenham. Medieval Women's Writing addresses these key questions:
Diane Watt argues that female patrons, audiences, readers, and even subjects contributed to the production of texts and their meanings, whether written by men or women. Only an understanding of textual production as collaborative enables us to grasp fully women's engagement with literary culture. This radical rethinking of early womens literary history has major implications for all scholars working on medieval literature, on ideas of authorship, and on women's writing in later periods. The book will become standard reading for all students of these debates. |
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Diane Watt. Reading the lives of saints: Christina of Markyate and the Anglo-Saxon tradition The saint's life and the woman writer: Clemence of Barking's St Catherine Women patrons and female saints: Osbern Bokenham's Legends of Holy ...
... Anglo-Saxon period, which, although chronologically outside the scope of this study as a whole, is considered in terms of the continuity of influence of the Old English saints' lives and in relation to questions of their reception. Most ...
... Anglo-Saxon religious historian Bede and twentiethcentury Anglo-Saxonists have conspired in their representation of Caedmon's Hymn as the 'birth' of English poetry, to exclude completely his patron, Abbess Hild, from this originary ...
... Anglo-Saxon work, I do not attempt to address fully the specific problems for women's literary history raised by writing in Old English. Indeed it is perhaps a particular limitation of this study that it only partially engages with the ...
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Christina of Markyate c 1096after 1 155 | 9 |
Marie de France fl 11801 | 25 |
Legends and Lives of Women Saints Late Tenth | 48 |
Julian of Norwich 134213after 1416 | 76 |
Margery Kempe c 1373after 1439 | 99 |
The Paston Letters 14401489 | 119 |