Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of abbreviations
- Chronology: women and literature in Britain, 1150–1500
- Introduction
- 1 The power and the weakness of women in Anglo-Norman romance
- 2 Women as lovers in early English romance
- 3 Mothers in Middle English romance
- 4 ‘Clerc u lai, muïne u dame’: women and Anglo-Norman hagiography in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
- 5 Women in No Man's Land: English recluses and the development of vernacular literature in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
- 6 ‘Women talking about the things of God’: a late medieval sub-culture
- 7 ‘… alle the bokes that I haue of latyn, englisch, and frensch’: laywomen and their books in late medieval England
- 8 Women authors and women's literacy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England
- 9 Women and their poetry in medieval Wales
- Further reading
- Index of manuscripts
- Index of names and titles
2 - Women as lovers in early English romance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of abbreviations
- Chronology: women and literature in Britain, 1150–1500
- Introduction
- 1 The power and the weakness of women in Anglo-Norman romance
- 2 Women as lovers in early English romance
- 3 Mothers in Middle English romance
- 4 ‘Clerc u lai, muïne u dame’: women and Anglo-Norman hagiography in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
- 5 Women in No Man's Land: English recluses and the development of vernacular literature in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
- 6 ‘Women talking about the things of God’: a late medieval sub-culture
- 7 ‘… alle the bokes that I haue of latyn, englisch, and frensch’: laywomen and their books in late medieval England
- 8 Women authors and women's literacy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England
- 9 Women and their poetry in medieval Wales
- Further reading
- Index of manuscripts
- Index of names and titles
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Women and Literature in Britain, 1150–1500 , pp. 24 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993