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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... daughter': reading Christina's Life Conclusion 2 Marie de France (fl. 11801 Introduction The monstrous Marie de France: metamorphosis and reputation 'Who painted the lion?' Ambiguity and interpretation Powers of horror and of ...
... daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet, count of Anjou, and thus Henry ll's half-sister. This Marie was born in France and was abbess of Shaftesbury between 1181 and 1216, and her life seems compatible with Marie de France's writings and vice ...
... asked them to and apparently allowed them to write letters in her own name. Dame Elizabeth Brews and her daughter Margery Brews, John Paston lll's fiancee, clearly regarded their household servant Thomas Kela extremely highly. They.
... daughter”: reading Christina's Life', looks at the degree and nature of collaboration in the writing of the Life and develops the idea that the Life, despite being commissioned by Geoffrey, fleetingly articulates a repressed Anglo-Saxon ...
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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 |