Description
Women's writing in any period remains of critical concern, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Alexandra Barratt's edition offers a wide range of texts from the period 1300-1500, including:
- Original texts written by women in the Middle Ages
- Texts translated by women in the Middle Ages
- Prayers, meditations, scriptural comment, and accounts of religious experiences
- Educational writings
- Romance, poetry
Each poem is given a headnote, giving details of composition, manuscript and sources. Full on-page annotation is provided giving details of allusions to contemporary religious, historical and social issues. A general introduction gives context to all the pieces and provides a penetrating account of the role of women in a burgeoning society of literary and cultural transmission
A new edition of the most comprehensive and pedagogically sound anthology of women's writing from the Middle Ages
About the Author
Alexandra Barratt is Professor of English at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Book Information
ISBN 9781408204146
Author Alexandra Barratt
Format Paperback
Page Count 372
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 568g
Dimensions(mm) 160mm * 234mm * 20mm