| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 348 pages) |
| Series |
Gender in the Middle Ages ; v.20 |
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Gender in the Middle Ages ; v.20.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Medieval Women's Literary Cultures and Thinking Beyond the Local / Liz Herbert McAvoy and Sue Niebrzydowski -- Part 1: Comparison and Dialogue. 1. Speaking Across the Stars: Parallel Affective Communities in Islamic and Christian Hagiography / Ayoush Lazikani -- 2. Women's Mystical Friendships: Margery Kempe and Mirabai / Alexandra Verini -- 3. Women's Writing in the Japanese Heian Period: A Medieval Dialogue between the East and West / Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa -- Part 2: Constructing Gender and Genre. 4. The Genre of the Late Medieval Personalised Orthodox Slavic Women's Miscellany: Three 'Existential' Questions / Michel de Dobbeleer -- 5. The Role of Kisaeng Sijo Poets in Medieval Korean Literature / Ko Jeong-hee and Justin M. Byron-Davies -- 6. Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya: Gender, Authority and Paradox in Attar's Tadhkirat al-'awliya and the Mantiq al-tayr / Shazia Jagot -- 7. Deception, Infanticide, and the Making of a Female Saint: A Look at the Gädl Krəstos Śämra / Meron T. Gebreananaye -- Part 3: Saintly Performance and Marian Piety. 8. 'Of our Lady thassumpcion': A European Context for the Worshipful Wives of Chester and their Marian Play / Sue Niebrzydowski -- 9. Mary and Elizabeth: Male Perspectives of Female-Coded Piety in Offices for the Visitation / Rhianydd Hallas -- 10. Speaking Internationally in Female Communities on the Eastern Borders of Medieval Europe / Renáta Modráková -- 11. Textual Phantoms and Spectral Presences: The Coming to Rest of Mechthild of Hackeborn's Writing in the Late Middle Ages / Liz Herbert McAvoy -- 12. Negotiating the Abject and the Sublime: The Centrality of Discourse Communities within Women's Mystical Experience / Kathryn Loveridge -- Part 4: Evidence and the Archives: Revisiting and Reconsidering. 13. 'Ic þæt secgan mæg': Women, Song, Story, Presence / Elaine Treharne -- 14. In the Undergrowth: Llwyn a Pherth and Sexual Deviancy in Medieval Wales / Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan and Sara Elin Roberts -- 15. 'I shall send yw money to by such stufe as I wull haue': The Paston Shoppers / Vicki Kay Price -- Afterword: Intersectionality and Coalitions / Jonathan Hsy |
| Summary |
Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and period boundaries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Women authors -- History -- To 1500
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Women in literature.
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Literature, Medieval
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Women authors
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Women in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Loveridge, Kathryn, editor.
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Herbert McAvoy, Liz, editor.
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Niebrzydowski, Sue, editor.
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Price, Vicki Kay, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781800109711 |
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1800109717 |
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