Medieval Women – Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain

Essays in Honour of Felicity Riddy

Edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Edited by Rosalynn Voaden Edited by Arlyn Diamond Edited by Ann Hutchison Edited by Carol Meale

Book cover: Medieval Women – Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain

Extent: 452, 452 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Series: Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts

Series volume number: 3

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(June 2000)

ISBN: 9782503509792

Price: $89.00

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In this themed collection of 24 articles by literary, historical and archaeological scholars, the study of medieval women is confidently and freshly mainstream. Profiting from the development of newly flexible models of gender, literacy, the political, the social, and the domestic, the volume is non-separatist, exploratory both of new source materials and new readings of established sources, and able to consider the broadest implications for the study of medieval culture without simply re-absorbing medieval women into invisibility. Grouped under the headings of matters of reading, of conduct and place, the essays move from legal cases to actual buildings and conceptions of the household to conduct books and chronicles to romances and saints’ lives to the medieval unconscious and back again, exemplifying the mature interdisciplinarity of current work on medieval women.

  • Edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
  • Edited by Rosalynn Voaden
  • Edited by Arlyn Diamond
  • Edited by Ann Hutchison
  • Edited by Carol Meale