Title Minding the body : women and literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500 / Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt

Published London : New York ; Twayne Publishers : Prentice Hall International, [1997] ©1997

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Description xi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Twayne's women and literature series Twayne's women and literature series. Contents Ch. 1. Body and Soul: Religious Constructions of Female Authorship -- Ch. 2. Redeeming Ornament: Women in Old English Literature -- Ch. 3. Mirror and Window: The Courtly Lady in Provencal Love Poetry and English Marian Hymns -- Ch. 4. Love and Marriage: Women in the Family Romance -- Ch. 5. When Echo Speaks: Marie de France and the Poetics of Remembrance -- Ch. 6. Body Broken, Body Whole: Eucharistic Devotion, Fabliaux, and the Feminine Impulse of the Corpus Christi Drama -- Ch. 7. The Female Speaker in Dream Vision: The Problem of (Women's) Language -- Ch. 8. Chaucer, Rape, and the Poetic Powers of Ventriloquism -- Ch. 9. Revaluing the Female Body, Reconceiving Motherhood: Mysticism and the Maternal in Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe -- Epilogue: Beyond the Middle Ages and Outside the Canon Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-230) and index Subject Civilization, Medieval, in literature. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism. Human body in literature. English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism. Literature, Medieval -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History. Women in literature. Women -- Great Britain -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 Author Evitt, Regula Meyer. LC no. 96036468 ISBN 0805789812 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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