M. Meale (ed.)

Women and Literature in Britain, 1150 1500

Herausgeber: Boyde, Patrick; Minnis, Alastair; Burrow, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays offers a pioneering review of women's access to literary culture in medieval Britain, and their representation within it. The rise of female literacy and women's activities as writers, patrons and readers, are examined in the context of wider questions of orality and literacy. The representation of women in different literary genres, secular and religious, shows the ways in which their position was understood in a variety of roles, as lovers, mothers and saints. This revised edition, newly available in paperback, includes a unique chronology offering a woman-centred perspective on historical and literary events before 1500, together with a guide to further reading.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780521576208
• ISBN-10: 0521576202
• Artikelnr.: 22144644

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. The power and the
weakness of women in Anglo-Norman romance Judith Weiss; 2. Women as lovers
in early English romance Flora Alexander; 3. Mothers in Middle English
romance Jennifer Fellows; 4. 'Clerc u lai, muine u dame': women and
Anglo-Norman hagiography in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Jocelyn
Wogan-Browne; 5. Women in no-man's land: English recluses and the
development of vernacular literature in the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries Bella Millett; 6. 'Women talking about the things of God': a late
medieval subculture Felicity Riddy; 7. '... Alle the bokes that I haue of
latyn, englisch, and frensch': laywomen and their books in late medieval
England Carol M. Meale; 8. Women authors and women's literacy in
fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England Julia Boffey; 9. Women and their
poetry in medieval Wales Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan.