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- catalog abstract ""This collection of essays offers a pioneering review of women's access to literary culture in medieval Britain, and their representation within it. The rise of female literacy and women's activities as writers, patrons and readers, are examined in the context of wider questions of orality and literacy. The representation of women in different literary genres, secular and religious, shows the ways in which their position was understood in a variety of roles, as lovers, mothers and saints." "This revised edition, newly available in paperback, includes a unique chronology offering a woman-centred perspective on historical and literary events before 1500, together with a guide to further reading."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9701101.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""This collection of essays offers a pioneering review of women's access to literary culture in medieval Britain, and their representation within it. The rise of female literacy and women's activities as writers, patrons and readers, are examined in the context of wider questions of orality and literacy. The representation of women in different literary genres, secular and religious, shows the ways in which their position was understood in a variety of roles, as lovers, mothers and saints." "This revised edition, newly available in paperback, includes a unique chronology offering a woman-centred perspective on historical and literary events before 1500, together with a guide to further reading."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Carol M. Meale -- 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, muine 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 Millet -- '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.".
- catalog extent "xi, 236 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521576202".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 17".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "Anglo-Norman literature Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "British literature.".
- catalog subject "English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Medieval Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR113 .W64 1996".
- catalog subject "Women Books and reading Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Women Great Britain Books and reading History.".
- catalog subject "Women Great Britain History Middle Ages, 500-1500.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Great Britain History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Carol M. Meale -- 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, muine 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 Millet -- '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.".
- catalog title "Women and literature in Britain, 1150-1500 / edited by Carol M. Meale.".
- catalog type "text".