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Medieval English Prose for Women
Author | : Bella Millett,Jocelyn Wogan-Browne |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015019573735 |
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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.
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Author | : Bella Millett,Jocelyn Wogan-Browne |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1401721159 |
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Women Saints Lives in Old English Prose
Author | : Leslie A. Donovan |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0859915689 |
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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.
Women in Medieval English Society
Author | : Mavis E. Mate |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1999-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521587336 |
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Written primarily for undergraduates, this book weighs the evidence for and against the various theories relating to the position of women at different time periods. Professor Mate examines the major issues deciding the position of women in medieval English society, asking questions such as, did women enjoy a rough equality in the Anglo-Saxon period that they subsequently lost? Did queens at certain periods exercise real political clout or was their power limited to questions of patronage? Did women's participation in the economy grant them considerable independence and allow them to postpone or delay marriage? Professor Mate also demonstrates that class, as well as gender, was very important in determining age at marriage and opportunities for power and influence. Although some women at certain times did make short-term gains, Professor Mate challenges the dominant view that major transformations in women's position occurred in the century after the Black Death.
A Companion to Middle English Prose
Author | : Anthony Stockwell Garfield Edwards |
Publsiher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843840189 |
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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.
Ancrene Wisse the Katherine Group and the Wooing Group
Author | : Bella Millett |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0859914291 |
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Bibliography of prose works offering unique evidence for the nature of women's religious experience in medieval England, with scholarly introduction.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature
Author | : Candace Barrington,Sebastian Sobecki |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2019-08-08 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781107180789 |
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A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.
The Discourse of Enclosure
Author | : Shari Horner |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2001-05-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780791490440 |
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2001 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Exploring Old English texts ranging from Beowulf to Ælfric's Lives of Saints, this book examines ways that women's monastic, material, and devotional practices in Anglo-Saxon England shaped literary representations of women and femininity. Horner argues that these representations derive from a "discourse" of female monastic enclosure, based on the increasingly strict rules of cloistered confinement that regulated the female religious body in the early Middle Ages. She shows that the female subjects of much Old English literature are enclosed by many layers—literal and figurative, textual, material, discursive, spatial—all of which image and reinforce the powerful institutions imposed by the Church on the female body. Though it has long been recognized that medieval religious women were enclosed, and that virginity was highly valued, this book is the first to consider the interrelationships of these two positions—that is, how the material practices of female monasticism inform the textual operations of Old English literature.