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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... Fables and Saint Patrick's Purgatory. Her authorship of a fourth, an early thirteenth-century French translation of the Latin Life of St Audrey is widely contested.fl However, it is important to remember that doubt remains not only over ...
... Fables as compilations, at least in part. As such, Marie's poems are the articulation of the memories, words and texts of others. Tellingly, the Lais are described by Marie in her Prologue to the Harley manuscript as based on her ...
... Fables, Saint Patrick's Purgatory) or indirect (the Lais) translations. No matter how self-effacing, translators, like compilers, make choices (about which text they will translate, about what to include and what to omit, about register ...
... Fables and Lais — were written, it would appear, for male patrons. Nevertheless, these also imply a wider audience that includes women. They are women-oriented texts that address issues that would have had particular significance for ...
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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 |