The Writings of medieval women : an anthology
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The Writings of medieval women : an anthology
(The Garland library of medieval literature, v. 100. ser. B)
Garland Pub., 1994
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
"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
Table 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
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