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.

Sommario

`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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lesley Smith
• Con la collaborazione di: Lesley Smith (Editore), Jane H M Taylor (Editore), Jane H. Taylor (Editore), Jane H. M. Taylor (Editore)
• Editore: Boydell & Brewer
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.10.1995
• EAN: 9780859914796
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-479-6
• Pagine: 208
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Peso: 476 g
• Serie: Women, the Book, & the Wordly
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Religiöse Institutionen und Organisationen, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, HISTORY / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism