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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 40
... Women patrons and female saints: Osbern Bokenham's Legends of Holy Women Conclusion 4 Julian of Norwich (134213—after ... Paston Letters (1440—1489! Introduction Absent women Reading medieval women's letters Women correspondents and the ...
... women's literary history, women's writing is here interpreted broadly to include both writing by women ('women-authored'), such as Marie de France, Clemence of Barking, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and the Paston women, and writing ...
... women, translations, compilations and a range of texts that are the product of collaboration between a female 'author' and male secretaries. Furthermore, at the end of the final chapter on the letters of the Paston women, I specifically ...
... women. as. authors? The biographical and personal nature of, for example The Life of Christina of Markyate, The Book of Margery Kempe and the Paston letters, provides us with a wealth of information about the lives of some of the women in ...
Diane Watt. any study of medieval women's writing should be wide-ranging enough to include correspondence such as that of the Paston womeng Furthermore, in all of these cases, the role of the reader remains crucial. If the idea of the ...
Índice
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 |