Letters of Medieval Women
| Author | : Anne Crawford |
| Publisher | : Sutton Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This is a unique compendium of letters written by medieval women between 1200 and 1500.
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Letters of Medieval Women
| Author | : Anne Crawford |
| Publisher | : Sutton Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This is a unique compendium of letters written by medieval women between 1200 and 1500.
Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700
| Author | : J. Daybell |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2001-05-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0230598668 |
This landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century. It is the first book to deal comprehensively with women's letter writing during the Late Medieval and Early Modern period and shows that this was a larger and more socially diversified area of female activity than has generally been assumed. The essays, contributed by many of the leading researchers active in the field, illustrate women's engagement in various activities, both literary and political, social and religious.
Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800
| Author | : Roger Bagnall |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 439 |
| Release | : 2015-07-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 047203622X |
The private letters of ancient women in Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest
Medieval Women's Writing
| Author | : Diane Watt |
| Publisher | : Polity |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2007-10-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0745632556 |
Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France, Clemence of Barking, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and the Paston women are discussed alongside the Old English lives of women saints, The Life of Christina of Markyate, the St Albans Psalter, and the legends of women saints by Osbern Bokenham. Medieval Women's Writing addresses these key questions: Who were the first women authors in the English canon? What do we mean by women's writing in the Middle Ages? What do we mean by authorship? How can studying medieval writing contribute to our understanding of women's literary history? Diane Watt argues that female patrons, audiences, readers, and even subjects contributed to the production of texts and their meanings, whether written by men or women. Only an understanding of textual production as collaborative enables us to grasp fully women's engagement with literary culture. This radical rethinking of early womens literary history has major implications for all scholars working on medieval literature, on ideas of authorship, and on women's writing in later periods. The book will become standard reading for all students of these debates.
The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters
| Author | : Muhsin J. al-Musawi |
| Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2015-04-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0268158010 |
In The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction, Muhsin J. al-Musawi offers a groundbreaking study of literary heritage in the medieval and premodern Islamic period. Al-Musawi challenges the paradigm that considers the period from the fall of Baghdad in 1258 to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1919 as an "Age of Decay" followed by an "Awakening" (al-nahdah). His sweeping synthesis debunks this view by carefully documenting a "republic of letters" in the Islamic Near East and South Asia that was vibrant and dynamic, one varying considerably from the generally accepted image of a centuries-long period of intellectual and literary stagnation. Al-Musawi argues that the massive cultural production of the period was not a random enterprise: instead, it arose due to an emerging and growing body of readers across Islamic lands who needed compendiums, lexicons, and commentaries to engage with scholars and writers. Scholars, too, developed their own networks to respond to each other and to their readers. Rather than addressing only the elite, this culture industry supported a common readership that enlarged the creative space and audience for prose and poetry in standard and colloquial Arabic. Works by craftsmen, artisans, and women appeared side by side with those by distinguished scholars and poets. Through careful exploration of these networks, The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters makes use of relevant theoretical frameworks to situate this culture in the ongoing discussion of non-Islamic and European efforts. Thorough, theoretically rigorous, and nuanced, al-Musawi's book is an original contribution to a range of fields in Arabic and Islamic cultural history of the twelfth to eighteenth centuries.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing
| Author | : Carolyn Dinshaw |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2003-05-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780521796385 |
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.
A Medieval Woman's Companion
| Author | : Susan Signe Morrison |
| Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2015-11-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1785700804 |
What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvelous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous souls who worked in fields dominated by men, women might not have the presence they currently do in professions such as education, the law, and literature. Focusing on women from Western Europe between c. 300 and 1500 CE in the medieval period and richly carpeted with detail, A Medieval Woman’s Companion offers a wealth of information about real medieval women who are now considered vital for understanding the Middle Ages in a full and nuanced way. Short biographies of 20 medieval women illustrate how they have anticipated and shaped current concerns, including access to education; creative emotional outlets such as art, theater, romantic fiction, and music; marriage and marital rights; fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, contraception and gynecology; sex trafficking and sexual violence; the balance of work and family; faith; and disability. Their legacy abides until today in attitudes to contemporary women that have their roots in the medieval period. The final chapter suggests how 20th and 21st century feminist and gender theories can be applied to and complicated by medieval women's lives and writings. Doubly marginalized due to gender and the remoteness of the time period, medieval women’s accomplishments are acknowledged and presented in a way that readers can appreciate and find inspiring. Ideal for high school and college classroom use in courses ranging from history and literature to women's and gender studies, an accompanying website with educational links, images, downloadable curriculum guide, and interactive blog will be made available at the time of publication.
The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women
| Author | : Jane Chance |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2007-08-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230605591 |
This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed 'unhomely' spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female; they created alternate idealized feminist societies and cultures, or utopias, through fantasy; and they legitimized female triviality the homely female space to provide autonomy. While these methodologies often overlapped in practice, they illustrate how cultures impinge on languages to create what Deleuze and Guattari have identified as a minor literature, specifically for women as dis-placed. Women writers discussed include Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France, Marguerite Porete, Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan.
The Writings of Medieval Women
| Author | : Marcelle Thiébaux |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 568 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780815313922 |
"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
