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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... manuscript, made many useful suggestions and was incredibly compassionate in her criticisms. In the final stages of the writing of this book, Clare and I shared many ideas, and, indeed, the afterword Cover Title page Copyright page ...
... manuscripts and miscellanies known to have been owned by women. lmportantly, the insights that emerge from this study might usefully be extended to women's writings of other (earlier and later) periods. Women's. literary. history. Women's ...
... manuscripts and domestic or household texts as well as more widely disseminated or professionally published works). It is equally crucial that, while we may legitimately look for an articulation of women's interests, we do not approach ...
... manuscript and book cultures more generally. Notable omissions from this book are anonymous texts for which an argument of female authorship can be made, and translations by men of works of Continental women writers — specifically ...
... 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 the lais of 'Lady Marie ...
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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 |