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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... Julian of Norwich (134213—after 1416) Introduction 'I am really nothing': A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman (the short text! 'The service and labour of motherhood': A Revelation of Love (the long text! 'This revelation is high divinity ...
... Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and the Paston women, and writing for and about women ('women-oriented'), such as The Life of Christina of Markyate, the St Albans Psalter and the legends of women saints by Osbern Bokenham. A central ...
... Julian of Norwich, remain elusive figures. Marie de France is another case in point, and it is useful to examine the arguments surrounding this figure in order to explore more fully the issue of female authorship. The only evidence ...
... Julian of Norwich or Margery Kempe — necessarily remains very much alive. Yet, as Summit puts it, 'the modern idea of the author as a single, creative individual holds limited relevance for medieval textual culture and limited ...
... Julian of Norwich or Margery Kempe in the book of her life, who were excluded from authority because of their sex were, as visionaries, also able to appropriate authority for their work by claiming that it was the product of divine ...
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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 |