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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... Middle English. l have therefore decided, wherever possible, to quote from my sources in modern English, either using readily available published translations, or providing my own translations or modernizations. However, in order to ...
... Middle Ages, especially prior to the fourteenth century, remains peripheral ... English, and the question of authorial agency in medieval culture's ... Middle Ages is still in fact widely contested. This applies especially to the ...
... Middle Ages.5 Yet as Jennifer Summit has also shown, the notion of the lost female author was, from the beginning, an integral part of the conceptualization of the English literature: that at the very point it was first formulated in ...
... medieval period. I do not extend my range of reference into the English Renaissance, even though the applicability of the medieval/Early Modern divide to women's history is one that l have questioned elsewhere.g Equally, although ...
... Middle English texts written for women, Ancrene Wisse or 'The Guide for Anchoresses'. Also excluded from consideration are the works (Ha/i Meidhad or 'Holy Virginity', and Saw/es Warde or 'The Custody of the Soul') which, together with ...
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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 |