Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England

Informationen zum Autor Mary Erler is Professor of English at Fordham University. She has edited the work of the Tudor poet Robert Copland (1993) and has co-edited Women and Power in the Middle Ages (1988). She has written on devotional literature in L. Hellinga and J. B. Trapp (eds.), Cambridge History of the Book, Vol. 3, 1400-1557 (1999). Her essays have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, Viator, The Library, Modern Philology, Medieval Studies, Medium Aewm, and other journals. Zusammenfassung Through seven narratives of individual medieval women! prefaced by an overview of nuns' reading and of women who owned printed books! Mary Erler traces networks of female book ownership and exchange which have so far been obscure! and shows how women were responsible for both owning and circulating devotional books. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction: Dinah's story; 1. Ownership and transmission of books: women's religious communities; 2. The library of a London vowess: Margery de Nerford; 3. A Norwich widow and her devout society: Margaret Purdans; 4. Orthodoxy: the Fettyplace sisters at Syon; 5. Heterodoxy: anchoress Katherine Manne and abbess Elizabeth Throckmorton; 6. Women owners or religious incunabula: the physical evidence; Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Indexes.

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• Authors: Mary C. Erler, Mary C. (Fordham University Erler, Mary Carpenter Erler
• Assisted by: Patrick Boyde (Editor), Alastair Minnis (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521024570
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02457-0
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies