![]() Trouble and strife in the Old French fabliaux Neil Cartlidgeġ8. Convent and city: Medieval women and drama Sue Niebrzydowskiġ6. Tears, mediation, and literary entanglement: the writings of Medieval visionary women Liz Herbert McAvoyġ4. ‘It satte me wel bet ay in a cave / To bidde and rede on holy seyntes lyves’: women and hagiography Christiania Whiteheadġ3. Lyrics: meditations, prayers and praisesġ2. Women and devotional compilations Denis Reneveyġ1. Women’s learning and lore: magic, recipes and folk belief Martha W. Gender and class in the circulation of conduct books Kathleen Ashleyĩ. Embracing the body and the soul: women in the literary culture of Medieval medicine Naoë Kukita YoshikawaĨ. Syon Abbey and the Birgittines Laura Saetveit Milesħ. ![]() Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group as textual communities, Medieval and modern Michelle M. Woman-to-woman initiatives between female religious: vertical and horizontal learning Mary C. Creating her own story: queens, noblewomen, and their cultural patronage Mary Dockray-Millerģ. ‘Miserere, meidens’: abbesses and nuns Elaine TreharneĢ. ![]() Patrons, Owners, Writers, and Readers in England and Europe:ġ. Introduction Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt Her previous books include Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650–1100 (2019), Medieval Women’s Writing: Books By and For Women in England, 1100–1500 (2007), Amoral Gower: Language, Sex and Politics (2003), and Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (1997). She is English Editor for the journal Medium Ævum.ĭiane Watt is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Surrey. Recent co-edited books include The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture, and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary (2021) and Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (2020). ![]() Her third monograph, Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance, was published in 2010. Reflecting recent trends in scholarship, the volume spans the early Middle Ages through to the eve of the Reformation and emphasises the multilingual, multicultural and international contexts of women’s literary culture.Ĭorinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies, Durham University. Essays span topics including book production and authorship reception linguistic, literary, and cultural contexts and influences women’s education and spheres of knowledge women as writers, scribes and translators women as patrons, readers and book owners and women as subjects. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic literary culture, it places British writing in wider European contexts while also considering more distant influences such as Arabic. Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. ![]()
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