The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing

Beginning with an examination of the different stages of women's lives--childhood, virginity, marriage and widowhood, this Companion addresses various aspects of medieval life that affected women's writing. These include the nature of authorship in the period, the position of women at home or in nunneries, and their relationship to religion. Additional essays cover the lives and work of such prominent women writers as Heloise, Marie de France, Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and Joan of Arc. A chronology and guides to further reading add information which students and scholars will find invaluable.

Author: Carolyn Dinshaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/22/2003
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.68h x 5.46w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780521796385

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2004 pg. 1876

About the Author
Dinshaw, Carolyn: - Carolyn Dinshaw is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. She is the author of Chaucer's Sexual Poetics (1989), and Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (1999).Wallace, David: - David Wallace is Judith Rodin Professor at the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of The Cambridge History of Medieval Literature, and the author of Chaucerian Polity.

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