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Medieval English Prose For Women
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Author : Bella Millett
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1990
Medieval English Prose For Women written by Bella Millett and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
The Ancrene Wisse, a guide for female recluses in the West Midlands in the early thirteenth century, and the closely related works of the "Katherine Group," offer vivid and fascinating insights into the religious life of the time. The difficulty of the language however, which skillfully blends Latin and native English stylistic traditions, has made the documents largely inaccessible to all but experts in Middle English. This edition presents the works in a new and readable critical text that includes interspersed translations, notes, a select glossary, and a general introduction, making this volume highly useful to undergraduates and generalists with limited knowledge of Middle English.
Medieval English Prose For Women
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Author : Bella Millett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Medieval English Prose For Women written by Bella Millett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
Ancrene Wisse The Katherine Group And The Wooing Group
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Author : Bella Millett
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 1996
Ancrene Wisse The Katherine Group And The Wooing Group written by Bella Millett and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bibliography of prose works offering unique evidence for the nature of women's religious experience in medieval England, with scholarly introduction.
Ancrene Wisse
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Author : Bella Millett
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2009
Ancrene Wisse written by Bella Millett and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
A new annotated translation of the early thirteenth century guide for women religious recluses, designed to accompany the recent and definitive Middle English text published by the Early English Text Society. The introduction sets the work in its context, asking why, when and where it was produced, as well as what the institutional background of its male author may have been. It emphasises the radical nature of the work with its vision of pastoral reform, its dismissive tone in relation to conventional monasticism, and its promotion of a vernacular spirituality.
Feminist Readings In Middle English Literature
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Author : Dr Ruth Evans
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-04
Feminist Readings In Middle English Literature written by Dr Ruth Evans and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, a substantial and very illuminating introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of Further Reading, offering preliminary guidance to the reader approaching the topic of gender and medieval literature for the first time. Works and writers covered include: * Chaucer * Margery Kempe * Christine de Pisan * The Katherine group of Saints' Lives * Langland's Piers Plowman * Medieval cycle drama Students of both medieval and feminist literature will find this an essential work for study and reference.
Women Saints Lives In Old English Prose
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Author : Leslie A. Donovan
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 1999
Women Saints Lives In Old English Prose written by Leslie A. Donovan and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
Translations of eight saints' lives, giving an insight into women's religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Devout, virtuous and independent, the heroines of Old English saints' lives (one of the most popular literary genres of the middle ages) provided exemplars of personal and public inspiration for medieval Christians. The eight lives translated here are the earliest known vernacular accounts of the biographies of Æthelthryth, Agatha, Agnes, Cecilia, Eugenia, Euphrosyne, Lucy, and Mary of Egypt. They depict women escaping unwanted marriages, communicating with male relatives, acquiring an education, living autonomously as hermits, and achieving positions of leadership; such lives document not only the importance of spiritual faith to early Christian women, but also testify to how these women (and their audience) employed faith as a tool for empowerment. Each life is preceded by a brief description of the saint's cult from its early Christian origins to its presence in Anglo-Saxon culture. The translationis accompanied by an introduction establishing the general background for the genre, the conventions of women saints' lives, and women's religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England; and an interpretive essay exploring the relationships between explicit presentations of the female body and the strength of spiritual authority as exhibited in these texts completes the volume. LESLIE A. DONOVAN is Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico.
A Companion To Middle English Prose
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Author : Anthony Stockwell Garfield Edwards
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2004
A Companion To Middle English Prose written by Anthony Stockwell Garfield Edwards and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in this volume provide an up-to-date and authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and genres. Each chapter is written by a leading authority on the subject and offers a succinct account of all relevant literary, history and cultural factors that need to considered, together with bibliographical references. Authors examined include the writers of the Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group and the Wohunge Group; Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; Nicholas Love; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; "Sir John Mandeville"; John Trevisa, Reginald Pecock; and John Fortescue. Genres discussed include romances, saints' lives, letters, sermon literature, historical prose, anonymous devotional writings, Wycliffite prose, and various forms of technical writing. The final chapter examines the treatment of Middle English prose in the first age of print. Contributors: BELLA MILLETT, RALPH HANNA III, AD PUTTER, KANTIK GHOSH, BARRY A. WINDEATT, A.C. SPEARING, IAN HIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, VINCENT GILLESPIE, HELEN L. SPENCER, ALFRED HIATT, FIONA SOMERSET, HELEN COOPER, GEORGE KEISER, OLIVER S. PICKERING, JAMES SIMPSON, RICHARD BEADLE, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE.
Medieval Women S Writing
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Author : Diane Watt
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2007-10-22
Medieval Women S Writing written by Diane Watt and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France, Clemence of Barking, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and the Paston women are discussed alongside the Old English lives of women saints, The Life of Christina of Markyate, the St Albans Psalter, and the legends of women saints by Osbern Bokenham. Medieval Women's Writing addresses these key questions: Who were the first women authors in the English canon? What do we mean by women's writing in the Middle Ages? What do we mean by authorship? How can studying medieval writing contribute to our understanding of women's literary history? Diane Watt argues that female patrons, audiences, readers, and even subjects contributed to the production of texts and their meanings, whether written by men or women. Only an understanding of textual production as collaborative enables us to grasp fully women's engagement with literary culture. This radical rethinking of early womens literary history has major implications for all scholars working on medieval literature, on ideas of authorship, and on women's writing in later periods. The book will become standard reading for all students of these debates.
Eve S Orphans
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Author : Nikki Stiller
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1980-10-24
Eve S Orphans written by Nikki Stiller and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-10-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Versions Of Virginity In Late Medieval England
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Author : Sarah Salih
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2001
Versions Of Virginity In Late Medieval England written by Sarah Salih and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Medieval virginity theory explored through study of martyrs, nuns and Margery Kempe. This study looks at the question of what it meant to be a virgin in the Middle Ages, and the forms which female virginity took. It begins with the assumptions that there is more to virginity than sexual inexperience, and that virginity may be considered as a gendered identity, a role which is performed rather than biologically determined. The author explores versions of virginity as they appear in medieval saints' lives, in the institutional chastity of nuns, and as shown in the book of Margery Kempe, showing how it can be active, contested, vulnerable but also recoverable. SARAH SALIH teaches in the Department of English at King's College London.