Women, writing and religion in England and beyond, 650-1100

Women's literary histories usually start in the later Middle Ages, but recent scholarship has shown that actually women were at the heart of the emergence of the English literary tradition. Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650-1100 focuses on the period before the so-called &#...

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Auteur principal : Watt Diane (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Women, writing and religion in England and beyond, 650-1100 / Diane Watt
Publié : London, New York : Bloomsbury Academic , 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-238 p.)
Collection : Studies in Early Medieval History Ian Wood (series editor)
Sujets :
  • Women's literary communities at Ely and Whitby
  • Women writing at barking and Minster-in-Thanet
  • Missionary women's letters and poetry
  • Exemplary missionary lives
  • (Re)writing women's history at Wilton Abbey
  • Textual intimacies in and beyond Wilton