The Cambridge companion to medieval women's writing
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The Cambridge companion to medieval women's writing
（Cambridge companions to literature）
Cambridge University Press, 2003
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Medieval women's writing
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Bibliography: p. 267-283
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Chronology Chris Africa
- Introduction Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace
- Part I. Estates of Women: 1. Female Childhoods Daniel T. Kline
- 2. Virginity Ruth Evans
- 3. Marriage Dyan Elliott
- 4. Widows Barbara Hanawalt
- 5. Between Women Karma Lochrie
- Part II. Texts and Other Spaces: 6. Women and authorship Jennifer Summit
- 7. Enclosure Christopher Cannon
- 8. At home
- out of the house Sarah Salih
- 9. Beneath the pulpit Alcuin Blamires
- Part III. Medieval Women: 10. Heloise Christopher Baswell
- 11. Marie de France Roberta L. Krueger
- 12. The Roman de la Rose, Christine de Pizan, and the querelles des femmes David F. Hult
- 13. Lyrics and romances Sarah McNamer
- 14. Julian of Norwich Nicholas Watson
- 15. Margery Kempe Carolyn Dinshaw
- 16. Continental women mystics and English readers Alexandra Barratt
- 17. Joan of Arc Nadia Margolis
- Guide to further reading.
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