Women, the Book, and the Worldly - Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda's Conference, Oxford, Volume II

Studies of women's roles in the secular literary world, as patrons, authors, readers, and characters in secular literature.

List of contents

`Women, literacy and invisibility in Southern Italy, 900-1200'. - Patricia E Skinner
`Female readers in Froissart: implied, fictive and other'. - Philip E Bennett
``That wommen holde in ful greet reverence': mothers and daughters reading chivalric romances'. -
`Pilfering Vegetius? Christine de Pizan's Faits d'armes et de chevalerie'. - Charity Cannon Willard
`The consolations of a woman writer: Christine de Pizan and the Boethian `Consolatio' tradition'. - Benjamin Semple
`In the voice of women: Chinese love poetry in the early Middle Ages'. - Anne Birrell
`Women, authority and the book in the Middle Ages'. - Jeanette Beer
`Francesca da Rimini and Dante's women readers'. -
`The variant passages in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and the textual transmission of The Canterbury Tales: the `Great Tradition' revisited'.Tradition' revisited'. - Beverly Kennedy
`Philippe de Remi's Manekine: Joie and pain'. - Carol J Harvey
`Women as readers, women as text in Le Roman de la Rose'. - Heather Arden
`Reclaiming the woman in the book: Marie de France and the Fables'. - Karen K Jambeck
`Lydgate's lyrics and women readers'. - Julia Boffey
`William Caxton, Margaret Beaufort and the romance of female patronage'. - Jennifer Summit
`Apocryphal entries: Judith in Caxton's Golden Legend'. - Margaux Stocker

Product details

• Authors: Lesley Smith
• Assisted by: Lesley Smith (Editor), Jane H M Taylor (Editor), Jane H. Taylor (Editor), Jane H. M. Taylor (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.1995
• EAN: 9780859914796
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-479-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Women, the Book, & the Wordly
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Religiöse Institutionen und Organisationen, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, HISTORY / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism