Women Writers Of The Middle Ages

Author : Peter Dronke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521275733

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This book gives a detailed picture of the contributions made by women writers to Western literature from the third century to the thirteenth. Many of the texts Peter Dronke presents and interprets have hitherto remained unknown, or virtually inaccessible; some have never been edited or translated before. The emphasis throughout is on personal testimonies, and on texts that have notable literary or intellectual interest. Thus the book affords many new insights into medieval literature, not only into the writings of renowned women such as Hrotsvitha or Heloise, but also into those of a number of neglected writers who are exceptional in their gifts and individuality. Already highly influential, Women Writers of the Middle Ages continues to be essential reading for specialists and students alike in medieval literature, medieval intellectual history, and women's studies.

Author : Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780820306414

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Medieval Women Writers by Katharina M. Wilson Pdf

This is one of the first anthologies devoted to the writings of women in the Middle Ages. The fifteen women whose works are represented span seven centuries, eight languages, and ten regions or nationalities. Many are recognized, taught, and anthologized in their own countries but have been inaccessible to students in English. Others are little read today because their literary fortunes have paralleled fluctuations in literary taste and literary patronage. Katharina M. Wilson's introduction to the volume places these writers in historical context and explores the question of the female imagination and who these women were who were writing at a time when very few women were literate and most literature, sacred and secular, was penned by men. Each of the fifteen chapters has been written by a different scholar and includes a biographical and critical introduction to the writer, a representative selection of her works in translation, and a bibliography.

Author : Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : European literature
ISBN : 0719010683

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Medieval Women Writers by Katharina M. Wilson Pdf

This is one of the first anthologies devoted to the writings of women in the Middle Ages. The fifteen women whose works are represented span seven centuries, eight languages, and ten regions or nationalities. Many are recognized, taught, and anthologized in their own countries but have been inaccessible to students in English. Others are little read today because their literary fortunes have paralleled fluctuations in literary taste and literary patronage. Katharina M. Wilson's introduction to the volume places these writers in historical context and explores the question of the female imagination and who these women were who were writing at a time when very few women were literate and most literature, sacred and secular, was penned by men. Each of the fifteen chapters has been written by a different scholar and includes a biographical and critical introduction to the writer, a representative selection of her works in translation, and a bibliography.

Author : Diane Watt
Publisher : Polity
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780745632551

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Medieval Women's Writing by Diane Watt Pdf

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: Who were the first women authors in the English canon? What do we mean by women's writing in the Middle Ages? What do we mean by authorship? How can studying medieval writing contribute to our understanding of women's literary history? 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.

Author : Laurie J. Churchill,Phyllis R. Brown,Jane E. Jeffrey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135377281

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Women Writing Latin by Laurie J. Churchill,Phyllis R. Brown,Jane E. Jeffrey Pdf

This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume Two covers women's writing in Latin in the Middle Ages.

Author : Virginia Blain,Patricia Clements,Isobel Grundy
Publisher : London : B.T. Batsford
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106009776540

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The Feminist Companion to Literature in English by Virginia Blain,Patricia Clements,Isobel Grundy Pdf

Author : Nahir I. Otaño Gracia,Daniel Armenti
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786838346

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Women's Lives by Nahir I. Otaño Gracia,Daniel Armenti Pdf

Women’s Lives presents essays on the ways in which the lives and voices of women permeated medieval literature and culture. The ubiquity of women amongst the medieval canon provides an opportunity for considering a different sphere of medieval culture and power that is frequently not given the attention it requires. The reception and use of female figures from this period has proven influential as subjects in literary, political, and social writings; the lives of medieval women may be read as models of positive transgression, and their representation and reception make powerful arguments for equality, agency and authority on behalf of the writers who employed them. The volume includes essays on well-known medieval women, such as Hildegard of Bingen and Teresa of Cartagena, as well as women less-known to scholars of the European Middle Ages, such as Al-Kāhina and Liang Hongyu. Each essay is directly related to the work of Elizabeth Petroff, a scholar of Medieval Women Mystics who helped recover texts written by medieval women.

Author : Jane Chance
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230605596

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The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women by Jane Chance Pdf

This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed 'unhomely' spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female; they created alternate idealized feminist societies and cultures, or utopias, through fantasy; and they legitimized female triviality the homely female space to provide autonomy. While these methodologies often overlapped in practice, they illustrate how cultures impinge on languages to create what Deleuze and Guattari have identified as a minor literature, specifically for women as dis-placed. Women writers discussed include Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France, Marguerite Porete, Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan.

Author : Katharina M. Wilson,Nadia Margolis
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060602383

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Women in the Middle Ages: A-J by Katharina M. Wilson,Nadia Margolis Pdf

The encyclopedia covers the myriad, experiences, and contributions of women in de medieval world.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110897777

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The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures by Albrecht Classen Pdf

The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in public and subjects it to a critical analysis. The ten chapters deal with various aspects of the question, and the voices of a variety of authors - both female and male - are heard. The study opens with an enquiry into violence against women, including in texts by male writers (Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach) which indeed describe instances of violence, but adopt an extremely critical stance towards them. It then proceeds to show how women were able to develop an independent identity in various genres and could present themselves as authorities in the public eye. Mystic texts by Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France and Margery Kempe, the medieval conduct poem known as Die Winsbeckin, the Devout Books of Sisters composed in convents in South-West Germany, but also quasi-historical documents such as the memoirs of Helene Kottaner or Anna Weckerin's cookery book, demonstrate that far more women were in the public gaze than had hitherto been assumed and that they possessed the self-confidence to establish their positions with their intellectual and their literary achievements.

Author : Peter Dronke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : European literature
ISBN : LCCN:83007456

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Women Writers of the Middle Ages by Peter Dronke Pdf

Author : Susan Signe-Morrison
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785700804

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A Medieval Woman's Companion by Susan Signe-Morrison Pdf

What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvelous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous souls who worked in fields dominated by men, women might not have the presence they currently do in professions such as education, the law, and literature. Focusing on women from Western Europe between c. 300 and 1500 CE in the medieval period and richly carpeted with detail, A Medieval Woman’s Companion offers a wealth of information about real medieval women who are now considered vital for understanding the Middle Ages in a full and nuanced way. Short biographies of 20 medieval women illustrate how they have anticipated and shaped current concerns, including access to education; creative emotional outlets such as art, theater, romantic fiction, and music; marriage and marital rights; fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, contraception and gynecology; sex trafficking and sexual violence; the balance of work and family; faith; and disability. Their legacy abides until today in attitudes to contemporary women that have their roots in the medieval period. The final chapter suggests how 20th and 21st century feminist and gender theories can be applied to and complicated by medieval women's lives and writings. Doubly marginalized due to gender and the remoteness of the time period, medieval women’s accomplishments are acknowledged and presented in a way that readers can appreciate and find inspiring. Ideal for high school and college classroom use in courses ranging from history and literature to women's and gender studies, an accompanying website with educational links, images, downloadable curriculum guide, and interactive blog will be made available at the time of publication.

Author : Carole Levin,Jeanie Watson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : European literature
ISBN : 0814318738

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Ambiguous Realities by Carole Levin,Jeanie Watson Pdf

Examining specific literary, historical, and theological texts, the essays in Ambiguous realities illuminate a number of important issues about women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: the changes in attitude toward women, the role and status of women, the dichotomy between public and private spheres, the prescriptions for women's behavior and the image of the ideal woman, and the difference between the perceived and the actual audience of medieval and Renaissance writers.--Back cover.

Author : Anna Roberts
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813063706

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Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts by Anna Roberts Pdf

This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal documents.

Author : Peter Dronke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:848861544

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Women writers of the Middle Ages : a critical study of texts from Perpetua †203 to Marguerite Porete †1310 by Peter Dronke Pdf