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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... evidence. She also argues for less restrictive preconceptions about the trajectory of women's literary history and indeed about what counts as women's writing and about the reality of early and pre-modern women's lives, education ...
... evidence seems to have been particularly widely read by menfi Also excluded is Joan of Arc (1412—31), who certainly has strong connections with English culture. Indeed this book as a whole is largely and self-consciously insular in its ...
... evidence external to the manuscripts of 'Marie's' poems that supports her existence comes from her contemporary Denis Piramus. Writing around 1180 in the court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Piramus talks about the popularity of ...
... evidence to support the case against it. In an important response to Roland Barthes's 1968 essay 'The Death of the Author', in which Barthes famously called for a focus on the reader rather than the author, Nancy Miller makes the ...
... evidence of literacy. Furthermore, research in the last two decades has shown that many women as well as men would have been part of reading and writing communities and networks and thus had greater access to literate and literary ...
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Christina of Markyate c 1096after 1 155 | 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 |