| Description |
xix, 289 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 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 -- Section 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 |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Part of Cambridge companions online |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index |
| Notes |
Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Literature, Medieval -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- History -- To 1500.
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Women in literature.
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| Author |
Dinshaw, Carolyn.
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Wallace, David, 1954-
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Cambridge University Press.
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| LC no. |
2003273212 |
| ISBN |
052179188X hardback |
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0521796385 paperback |
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