Dear Sister : medieval women and the epistolary genre

Author(s)

• Cherewatuk, Karen Helen
• Wiethaus, Ulrike

Bibliographic Information

Dear Sister : medieval women and the epistolary genre

edited by Karen Cherewatuk and Ulrike Wiethaus

（Middle Ages series）

University of Pennsylvania Press, c1993

• : pbk

Other Title

Medieval women and the epistolary genre

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-206) and index

Contents of Works

• Radegund and epistolary tradition / Karen Cherewatuk
• Visions and rhetorical strategy in the letters of Hildegard of Bingen / Gillian T.W. Ahlgren
• "Wholly guilty, wholly innocent" : self-definition in Héloïse's letters to Abélard / Glenda McLeod
• "Io Catarina" : ecclesiastical politics and oral culture in the letters of Catherine of Siena / Karen Scott
• "No writing for writing's sake" : the language of service and household rhetoric in the letters of the Paston women / Diane Watt
• "Seulette a part" : the "little woman on the sidelines" takes up her pen : the letters of Christine de Pizan / Earl Jeffrey Richards
• "If I had an iron body" : femininity and religion in the letters of Maria de Hout / Ulrike Wiethaus

Details

• NCID: BA21226479
• ISBN:
  • 0812231708
  • 0812214374
• LCCN: 93020024
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 215 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN6131
  • DC20 : 809.6/0082
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Letters -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Literature, Medieval -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Historiography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00322408