Overview
This collection of essays focuses on the questions of women's access to a written culture and their representation in literature in late medieval Britain. It explores women's engagement with Anglo-Norman, English, Welsh and Latin, and addresses such issues as orality and literacy and women's exclusion from a written tradition. It considers the historical evidence for women's activity as writers, patrons and readers, and 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.
- | Author: Alastair Minnis
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 12, 1996
- | Number of Pages: 276 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521576202
- | ISBN-13: 9780521576208
