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  3. Women and Literature in Britain, 1150–1500
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2009
Print publication year:
1993
Online ISBN:
9780511582073
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582073
Subjects:
Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (17)
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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.

Reviews

‘… a harbinger of the way our thinking about literary culture in the Middle Ages is destined to be transformed by … painstaking exhumations of women’s lives and roles … invaluable.’

Nicholas Watson Source: Studies in the Age of Chaucer

‘There is much of interest in every one of these chapters, and individually the essays are precisely focused and often succienct.’

Source: AUMLA

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