Women's Writing in Middle English
An Annotated Anthology
2nd Edition
Published on 29. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
372 pages
978-1-4082-0414-6 (ISBN)
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
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
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Alexandra Barratt is Professor of English at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Editorial procedure
Introduction
The Texts (extracts)
Middle English Trotula texts
Marie de France: Lay le Freine
Mechtild of Hackeborn and Gertrude the Great : The Book of Ghostly Grace
Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls
Elizabeth of Hungary: The Revelations of Saint Elizabeth
Bridget of Sweden: The Revelations and The Rule of Our Saviour
Catherine of Siena: The Orchard of Syon
Julian of Norwich: A Revelation of Love
Christine de Pisan: The Epistle of Othea and The Body of Policy
A Revelation of Purgatory: A Revelation Showed to a Holy Woman
Fifteen Prayers Revealed to a Recluse: The Fifteen Oes
Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe
A Collection of Prayers: The Faits and the Passion of Our Lord Jesu Christ
Women and the Law
Dame Eleanor Hull
Juliana Berners: The Book of Hunting
The Cellaress of Barking Abbey
Some Paston Letters
Fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century poems
Lady Margaret Beaufort: The Imitation of Christ and The Mirror of Gold to the Sinful Soul
Fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century prayers
Bibliography
Index
List of abbreviations
Editorial procedure
Introduction
The Texts (extracts)
Middle English Trotula texts
Marie de France: Lay le Freine
Mechtild of Hackeborn and Gertrude the Great : The Book of Ghostly Grace
Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls
Elizabeth of Hungary: The Revelations of Saint Elizabeth
Bridget of Sweden: The Revelations and The Rule of Our Saviour
Catherine of Siena: The Orchard of Syon
Julian of Norwich: A Revelation of Love
Christine de Pisan: The Epistle of Othea and The Body of Policy
A Revelation of Purgatory: A Revelation Showed to a Holy Woman
Fifteen Prayers Revealed to a Recluse: The Fifteen Oes
Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe
A Collection of Prayers: The Faits and the Passion of Our Lord Jesu Christ
Women and the Law
Dame Eleanor Hull
Juliana Berners: The Book of Hunting
The Cellaress of Barking Abbey
Some Paston Letters
Fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century poems
Lady Margaret Beaufort: The Imitation of Christ and The Mirror of Gold to the Sinful Soul
Fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century prayers
Bibliography
Index