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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... scribes and annotators, for example, or as patrons and book-owners. Extending our definitions of women's writing further, as did Carol M. Meale in the early 1990s, to include writing that is produced for and read by women enables a more ...
... scribes, compilers and commentatorsfi One named late medieval male writer whose work is examined in this book, Osbern Bokenham, introduces his Legends of Holy Women in the conventional terms of the academic prologue tradition. At the ...
... scribes, compilers and commentators, another category of writer whose role was acknowledged in the Middle Ages, albeit as a ... scribe that exposes a major faultline in any discussion of female authorship in the Middle Ages. However, to ...
... scribes means that it is easy to miss the evidence of literacy. Furthermore, research in the last two decades has ... scribe, with its connotations of professional disinterest. Margery Kempe's first secretary was her own son, and her ...
... scribe or visionary, hagiographer or saint?' and provides the answer that 'all position themselves not as originators but as recorders of divinely inspired text that originates elsewhere'.Q But in all such religious texts the woman as ...
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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 |