UID:
almafu_9960966113702883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 207 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-80010-299-2
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1-80010-298-4
Series Statement:
Gender in the Middle Ages ; volume 18
Content:
From the tenth to the twelfth centuries in England and Scotland we have scant evidence of women's writing. How, then, can we access these women's experiences? This book argues that by analysing texts deliberately written forand addressed directly to women we gain an insight into the horizons of possibility for their lives. It examines religious texts addressed to women, bringing together works that are more widely studied with others that are less well known, and demonstrates continuities across Old English and Latin texts written for female readers and patrons across the Conquest period.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2021.
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Introduction: Behealde ge wif: Addressing women in early medieval England and Scotland -- Addressing laywomen in old English sermons -- Addressing the recluse in Aelred's de institutione inclusarum and Goscelin's liber confortatorius -- Addressing holy women in the life of Christina of Markyate and the life of Margaret of Scotland -- Addressing nuns in Goscelin's hagiography for wilton and barking abbeys -- Conclusion: Plebs ecclesiastice discipline: Addressing women to include and exclude.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84384-596-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
;
History.
DOI:
10.1515/9781800102989
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781800102989/type/BOOK
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