The Writings of Medieval Women: An Anthology

ISBN-13: 9780815313922 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 564 str.

Marcelle Thiebaux

Opis

Enlarged and revised with a new introduction and new textual materials, individual introductions, critical commentaries, and updated bibliographies, this new second edition of 'The Writings of medieval Women' will appeal to an even wider readership.

Recenzje

"Royal and saintly women are well-represented here, with the welcome addition of women from the Mediterranean arc...Garland has done a solid job of presenting this book." -- Arthuriana
"The Anthology gives a fine sense of the great range of women's writing in the Middle Ages." -- Medium Aevum

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Prisoner, Dreamer, Martyr; Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 A Pilgrim to the Holy Land; Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 Calumniated Empress and Poet; Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 An Ill-Fated Gothic Queen; Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 Three Consecrated Women of Merovingian Gaul; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 “Words Flowing Like Gold Fringes”; Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7 Barbarian Women, Holy Women; Chapter 8 CHAPTER 8 A Mother to a Young Warrior; Chapter 9 CHAPTER 9 Hagiographer, Playwright, Epic Historian; Chapter 10 CHAPTER 10 A Byzantine Historian of the First Crusade; Chapter 11 CHAPTER 11 The Trobairitz in Love and Strife; Chapter 12 CHAPTER 12 “Marie Is My Name: I Am of France”; Chapter 13 CHAPTER 13 Good Queen Maud; Chapter 14 CHAPTER 14 A Benedictine Visionary in the Rhineland; Chapter 15 CHAPTER 15 Handmaid of God; Chapter 16 CHAPTER 16 Brides of the Celestial Bedchamber; Chapter 17 CHAPTER 17 A Woman of Letters at the French Court; Chapter 18 CHAPTER 18 An Anchoress of England; Chapter 19 CHAPTER 19 Four English Women of the Fifteenth Century; Index;

O autorze

Marcelle Thiébaux