Since the closing decades of the twentieth century, medieval women's writing has been the subject of energetic conversation and debate. This interest, however, has focused predominantly on western European writers working within the Christian tradition: the Saxon visionaries, Mechthild of Hacke...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Loveridge, Kathryn (HerausgeberIn), Herbert McAvoy, Liz ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn), Niebrzydowski, Sue ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn), Kay Price, Vicki (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge D.S. Brewer 2023
Schriftenreihe:	Gender in the Middle Ages volume 20
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 500-1500 Literatur Frauenliteratur Autorin Literature, Medieval / Women authors / History and criticism Literature, Medieval / History and criticism Women authors / History / To 1500 Women in literature Literature, Medieval Women authors To 1500 Criticism, interpretation, etc History Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	Since the closing decades of the twentieth century, medieval women's writing has been the subject of energetic conversation and debate. This interest, however, has focused predominantly on western European writers working within the Christian tradition: the Saxon visionaries, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Gertrude the Great, for example, and, in England, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe are cases in point. While this present book acknowledges the huge importance of such writers to women's literary history, it also argues that they should no longer be read solely within a local context. Instead, by putting them into conversation with other literary women and their cultures from wider geographical regions and global cultures - women from eastern Europe and their books, dramas and music; the Welsh gwraig llwyn a pherth (woman of bush and brake); the Indian mystic, Mirabai; Japanese women writers from the Heian period; women saints from across Christian Europe and those of eleventh-century Islam or late medieval Ethiopia; for instance - much more is to be gained in terms of our understanding of the drivers behind and expressions of medieval women's literary activities in far broader contexts. 0This volume considers the dialogue, synergies, contracts and resonances emerging from such new alignments, and to help a wider, multidirectional development of this enquiry into women's literary cultures
Beschreibung:	xi, 345 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:	9781843846567