Alexandra Barratt

Women's Writing in Middle English

An Annotated Anthology

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection as accessible as it is important, Women's Writing in Middle English will prove an essential resource for all those concerned with the history, religion and culture of the Middle Ages. Alexandra Barratt has selected a range of texts both for their intrinsic interest and for their contribution to our understanding of women's place in the literary culture of the period. There are extracts from texts first written in Middle English by women, texts translated by women into Middle English, and texts composed by women in French and Latin that were available in Middle English translation. These include accounts of religious experiences; prayers and meditations; scriptural commentary; personal letters; educational writings; romance; and poetry. For this second edition, new texts have been added, including women's wills and other legal documents, a nun's form of confession, and more extracts from visionary writings. A headnote accompanies each set of extracts, together with generous on-the-page annotations and explanatory glosses. The Introduction places the selections in context, and discusses whether such a category as 'women's writing' could be said to exist in the Middle Ages. This new edition also includes a full, updated bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Alexandra Barratt is Professor of English at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781408204146
• ISBN-10: 1408204142
• Artikelnr.: 29489011

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Barratt

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Editorial procedure Introduction
The Texts (extracts) 1. Middle English Trotula texts 2. Marie de France:
Lay le Freine 3. Mechtild of Hackeborn and Gertrude the Great : The Book of
Ghostly Grace 4. Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls 5. Elizabeth
of Hungary: The Revelations of Saint Elizabeth 6. Bridget of Sweden: The
Revelations and The Rule of Our Saviour 7. Catherine of Siena: The Orchard
of Syon 8. Julian of Norwich: A Revelation of Love 9. Christine de Pisan:
The Epistle of Othea and The Body of Policy 10. A Revelation of Purgatory:
A Revelation Showed to a Holy Woman 11. Fifteen Prayers Revealed to a
Recluse: The Fifteen Oes 12. Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe 13. A
Collection of Prayers: The Faits and the Passion of Our Lord Jesu Christ
14. Women and the Law 15. Dame Eleanor Hull 16. Juliana Berners: The Book
of Hunting 17. The Cellaress of Barking Abbey 18. Some Paston Letters 19.
Fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century poems 20. Lady Margaret Beaufort:
The Imitation of Christ and The Mirror of Gold to the Sinful Soul 21.
Fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century prayers Bibliography Index