附註:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The power and the weakness of women in Anglo-Norman romance / Judith Weiss -- Women as lovers in early English romance / Flora Alexander -- Mothers in Middle English romance / Jennifer Fellows -- 'Clerc u lai, muïne u dame' : women and Anglo-Norman hagiography in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne -- Women in no man's land : English recluses and the development of vernacular literature in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Bella Millett -- 'Women talking about the things of God' : a late medieval sub-culture / Felicity Riddy -- ' ... alle the bokes that I haue of latyn, englisch, and frensch' : laywomen and their books in late medieval England / Carol M. Meale -- Women authors and women's literacy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England / Julia Boffey -- Women and their poetry in medieval Wales / Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan.
摘要:This collection of essays focuses on the questions of women's access to a written culture in medieval Britain and their representation within it. It explores women's engagement with Anglo-Norman, English and Welsh as well as Latin, and addresses issues including orality and literacy and women's exclusion from a written tradition. It considers the question of the levels of literacy attained by women, and contemporary attitudes to their acquisition of such skills, as well as the historical evidence for women's activity as writers, patrons and readers. It also 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. This is the first such volume to focus on these issues within the specific framework of late medieval Britain, and as such constitutes a unique contribution to the study of women and medieval literary history.
