Women and Medieval Literary Culture (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Saunders, Corinne; Watt, Diane

• Format: PDF

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108875509
• Artikelnr.: 68970260

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Introduction Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt; I. Patrons, Owners, Writers,
and Readers in England and Europe: 1. 'Miserere, meidens': abbesses and
nuns Elaine Treharne; 2. Creating her own story: queens, noblewomen, and
their cultural patronage Mary Dockray-Miller; 3. Woman-to-woman initiatives
between female religious: vertical and horizontal learning Mary C. Erler;
II. Circles and Communities in England: 4. Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine
Group, and the Wooing Group as textual communities, Medieval and modern
Michelle M. Sauer; 5. Syon Abbey and the Birgittines Laura Saetveit Miles;
6. What the Paston women read Diane Watt; III. Health, Conduct, and
Knowledge: 7. Embracing the body and the soul: women in the literary
culture of Medieval medicine Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa; 8. Gender and class in
the circulation of conduct books Kathleen Ashley; 9. Women's learning and
lore: magic, recipes and folk belief Martha W. Driver; 10. Women and
devotional compilations Denis Renevey; IV. Genre and Gender: 11. Lyrics:
meditations, prayers and praises; songs and carols David Fuller; 12. 'It
satte me wel bet ay in a cave / To bidde and rede on holy seyntes lyves':
women and hagiography Christiania Whitehead; 13. Tears, mediation, and
literary entanglement: the writings of Medieval visionary women Liz Herbert
McAvoy; 14. Convent and city: Medieval women and drama Sue Niebrzydowski;
15. Women and romance Corinne Saunders; 16. Trouble and strife in the Old
French fabliaux Neil Cartlidge; 17. Chaucer and Gower Venetia Bridges; V.
Women as Authors: 18. Marie de France: identity and authorship in
translation Emma Campbell; 19. Julian of Norwich: a woman's vision, book,
and readers Barry Windeatt; 20. The communities of The Book of Margery Kemp
Anthony Bale; 21. Christine de Pizan: women's literary culture and
Anglo-French politics Nancy Bradley Warren; 22. Beyond borders: women poets
in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales up to c. 1500 Cathryn A. Charnell-White.