The Writings of Medieval Women - An Anthology

"Royal and saintly women are well-represented here, with the welcome addition of women from the Mediterranean arc...Garland has done a solid job of presenting this book." -- Arthuriana
"The Anthology gives a fine sense of the great range of women's writing in the Middle Ages." -- Medium Aevum

List of contents

Chapter 1 Prisoner, Dreamer, Martyr; Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 A Pilgrim to the Holy Land; Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 Calumniated Empress and Poet; Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 An Ill-Fated Gothic Queen; Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 Three Consecrated Women of Merovingian Gaul; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 “Words Flowing Like Gold Fringes”; Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7 Barbarian Women, Holy Women; Chapter 8 CHAPTER 8 A Mother to a Young Warrior; Chapter 9 CHAPTER 9 Hagiographer, Playwright, Epic Historian; Chapter 10 CHAPTER 10 A Byzantine Historian of the First Crusade; Chapter 11 CHAPTER 11 The Trobairitz in Love and Strife; Chapter 12 CHAPTER 12 “Marie Is My Name: I Am of France”; Chapter 13 CHAPTER 13 Good Queen Maud; Chapter 14 CHAPTER 14 A Benedictine Visionary in the Rhineland; Chapter 15 CHAPTER 15 Handmaid of God; Chapter 16 CHAPTER 16 Brides of the Celestial Bedchamber; Chapter 17 CHAPTER 17 A Woman of Letters at the French Court; Chapter 18 CHAPTER 18 An Anchoress of England; Chapter 19 CHAPTER 19 Four English Women of the Fifteenth Century; Index;

About the author

Marcelle Thiébaux

Summary

"Royal and saintly women are well-represented here, with the welcome addition of women from the Mediterranean arc...Garland has done a solid job of presenting this book." -- Arthuriana"The Anthology gives a fine sense of the great range of women's writing in the Middle Ages." -- Medium Aevum

Product details

• Assisted by: Marcelle Theibaux (Editor), Theibaux Marcelle (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1994
• EAN: 9780815313922
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-1392-2
• No. of pages: 564
• Weight: 1040 g
• Series: Library of Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary essays, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Anthologies (non-poetry), Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Anthologies