Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 238Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781474270663
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9781474270656
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9781474270649
Series Statement:
Studies in early medieval history
Content:
"Women's literary histories usually start in the later Middle Ages, but recent scholarship has shown that actually women were at the heart of the emergence of the English literary tradition. Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650́€"1100 focuses on the period before the so-called 'Barking Renaissance' of women's writing in the 12th century. By examining the surviving evidence of women's authorship, as well as the evidence of women's engagement with literary culture more widely, Diane Watt argues that early women's writing was often lost, suppressed, or deliberately destroyed. In particular she considers the different forms of male 'overwriting', to which she ascribes the multiple connotations of 'destruction', 'preservation', 'control' and 'suppression'. She uses the term to describe the complex relationship between male authors and their female subjects to capture the ways in which texts can attempt to control and circumscribe female autonomy. Written by one of the leading experts in medieval women's writing, Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650́€"1100 examines women's literary engagement in monasteries such as Ely, Whitby, Barking and Wilton Abbey, as well as letters and hagiographies from the 8th and 9th centuries. Diane Watt provides a much-needed look at women's writing in the early medieval period that is crucial to understanding women's literary history more broadly."--
Content:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts and Translations -- General Map -- Introduction -- 1 -- Women's Literary Communities at Ely and Whitby -- 2 -- Women Writing at Barking and Minster-in-Thanet -- 3 -- Missionary Women's Letters and Poetry -- 4 -- Exemplary Missionary Lives -- 5 (Re)writing Women's History at Wilton Abbey -- 6 Textual Intimacies in and beyond Wilton -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474270625
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Watt, Diane, 1965 - Women, writing and religion in England and beyond, 650-1100 London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 ISBN 9781474270625
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350239722
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Altenglisch
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Frauenliteratur
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Geschichte 650-1100
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Kloster Ely
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Kloster Whitby
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Kloster Wilton
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Barking Abbey
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DOI:
10.5040/9781474270663
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