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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... English literature, as well as those interested in women's writing in later periods, and in literary history, and specifically feminist literary history. The medieval works I discuss here are written in Latin and French as well as Old ...
... English, and the question of authorial agency in medieval culture's different models of the relationship between ... Old English saints' lives and in relation to questions of their reception. Most medieval women's writing was religious ...
... Old English. Indeed it is perhaps a particular limitation of this study that it only partially engages with the already marginalized Anglo-Saxon period. This is an area that has already been considered by Lees and Overing in Double ...
... England (including, apparently, Old English, Welsh, French and Latin), as well as Breton, she must have been exceptionally privileged. Indeed medieval definitions of literacy as the ability to read Latin would have excluded almost all ...
... Old English lives of women saints, The Life of Christina of Markyate and Marie de France's Fables and Lais — were written, it would appear, for male patrons. Nevertheless, these also imply a wider audience that includes women. They are ...
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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 |