Women Writing Latin - Early Modern Women Writing Latin

This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume Three covers women's writing in Latin during the early modern period (1400-1700).

List of contents

Part 1 Women Writing Latin: An Introduction; Chapter 1 Radegund and the Letter of Foundation, Jane E. Jeffrey; Chapter 2 A Schoolgirl and Mistress Felhin: A Devout Petition from Ninth-Century Saxony, Steven A. Stofferahn; Chapter 3 Hrotsvit's Callimachus and the Art of Comedy, Mark Damen; Chapter 4 Sisters in the Literary Agon: Texts from Communities of Women on the Mortuary Roll of the Abbess Matilda of La Trinité, Caen, Daniel Sheerin; Chapter 5 Hildegard of Bingen: The Teutonic Prophetess, Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers; Chapter 6 The Problemata of Heloise, Anne Collins Smith; Chapter 7 Autobiography or Autohagiography? Decoding the Subtext in the Visions of Elisabeth of Schönau, Thalia A. Pandiri; Chapter 8 Herrad of Hohenbourg and the Poetry of the Hortus deliciarum: Cantat tibi cantica, Fiona Griffiths; Chapter 9 Anonymous Lives: Documents from the Benedictine Convent of Sant Pere de les Puelles, Linda McMillin; Chapter 10 Street Mysticism: An Introduction to The Life and Revelations of Agnes Blannbekin, Ulrike Wiethaus; Chapter 11 Birgitta Birgersdotter, Saint Bride of Sweden (1303?-1373), Sandra Straubhaar;

Summary

Volume three of this three-volume anthology covers women's writing in Latin during the early modern period (1400-1700). Each volume in the the anthology provides texts, contexts and translations of a wide variety of works by women.

Product details

• Assisted by: Phyllis R. Brown (Editor), Brown Phyllis R. (Editor), Laurie J. Churchill (Editor), Churchill Laurie J. (Editor), Jane E. Jeffrey (Editor), Jeffrey Jane E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2002
• EAN: 9780415941853
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94185-3
• No. of pages: 308
• Weight: 500 g
• Series: Women Writers of the World
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800