Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Cambridge companions online
Edition:
Cambridge collections online
Edition:
The Cambridge companions complete collection
Edition:
The Cambridge companions to literature and classics
ISBN:
052179188X
,
0521796385
,
9780521791885
,
9780521796385
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780511999123
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521791885
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. u.d.T. The Cambridge companion to medieval women's writing Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003 ISBN 052179188X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521796385
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Frauenliteratur
;
Geschichte 500-1500
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL052179188X
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