Women Writing Latin : Medieval Modern Women Writing Latin

ISBN-13: 9780415941846 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 336 str.

L. Churchill; Phyllis R. Brown; Jane E. Jeffrey

Opis

Volume two of this three-volume anthology covers women's writing in Latin in the Middle Ages. Each volume in the anthology provides texts, contexts and translations of a wide variety of works produced by womem.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Women Writing Latin: An Introduction; Chapter 2 Radegund and the Letter of Foundation, Jane E. Jeffrey; Chapter 3 A Schoolgirl and Mistress Felhin: A Devout Petition from Ninth-Century Saxony, Steven A. Stofferahn; Chapter 4 Hrotsvit's Callimachus and the Art of Comedy, Mark Damen; Chapter 5 Sisters in the Literary Agon: Texts from Communities of Women on the Mortuary Roll of the Abbess Matilda of La Trinité, Caen, Daniel Sheerin; Chapter 6 Hildegard of Bingen: The Teutonic Prophetess, Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers; Chapter 7 The Problemata of Heloise, Anne Collins Smith; Chapter 8 Autobiography or Autohagiography? Decoding the Subtext in the Visions of Elisabeth of Schönau, Thalia A. Pandiri; Chapter 9 Herrad of Hohenbourg and the Poetry of the Hortus deliciarum: Cantat tibi cantica, Fiona Griffiths; Chapter 10 Anonymous Lives: Documents from the Benedictine Convent of Sant Pere de les Puelles, Linda McMillin; Chapter 11 Street Mysticism: An Introduction to The Life and Revelations of Agnes Blannbekin, Ulrike Wiethaus; Chapter 12 Birgitta Birgersdotter, Saint Bride of Sweden (1303?–1373), Sandra Straubhaar;

O autorze

Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, Jane E. Jeffrey