Title Women and literature in Britain, 1150-1500 / edited by Carol M. Meale

Published Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (x, 223 pages) : illustrations Series Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 17 Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 17. Contents The power and the weakness of women in Anglo-Norman romance / Judith Weiss -- Women as lovers in early English romance / Flora Alexander -- Mothers in Middle English romance / Jennifer Fellows -- 'Clerc u lai, muïne u dame' : women and Anglo-Norman hagiography in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne -- Women in no man's land : English recluses and the development of vernacular literature in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Bella Millett -- 'Women talking about the things of God' : a late medieval sub-culture / Felicity Riddy -- ' ... alle the bokes that I haue of latyn, englisch, and frensch' : laywomen and their books in late medieval England / Carol M. Meale -- Women authors and women's literacy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England / Julia Boffey -- Women and their poetry in medieval Wales / Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan Summary This collection of essays focuses on the questions of women's access to a written culture in medieval Britain and their representation within it. It explores women's engagement with Anglo-Norman, English and Welsh as well as Latin, and addresses issues including orality and literacy and women's exclusion from a written tradition. It considers the question of the levels of literacy attained by women, and contemporary attitudes to their acquisition of such skills, as well as the historical evidence for women's activity as writers, patrons and readers. It also examines the representation of women within different literary genres, both secular and religious - their possession or lack of power, and their roles as lovers, mothers and saints. This is the first such volume to focus on these issues within the specific framework of late medieval Britain, and as such constitutes a unique contribution to the study of women and medieval literary history Analysis English Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Print version record SUBJECT Englisch ... gnd Subject Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism Anglo-Norman literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women -- Great Britain -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 Women -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History British literature. Literature, Medieval -- history Women -- history LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. British literature English literature -- Middle English English literature -- Women authors Women and literature Women -- Books and reading Women -- Middle Ages Frau Motiv Frau Frauenliteratur Geschichte Literarisches Leben Literatur Mittelenglisch Schriftstellerin Aufsatzsammlung Vrouwen. Letterkunde. Engels. Littérature anglaise -- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) -- Histoire et critique. Littérature anglo-normande -- Femmes écrivains -- Histoire et critique. Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Moyen âge. Femmes -- Dans la littérature. Littérature anglaise -- Femmes écrivains -- Histoire et critique. Great Britain England Großbritannien Mittelenglisch. Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Meale, Carol M., 1953- ISBN 0585041601 9780585041605 9780511582073 0511582072 9780511000898 0511000898

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