Womens Writing In Middle English 2nd Edition Alexandra Barratt by Alexandra Barratt 9781408204146, 1408204142 instant download after payment.

"This impressive and pioneering anthology presents extracts in the original Middle English of the various kinds of medieval texts in which women were involved. It explores their place in medieval literary culture and invites readers to judge whether there is such a thing as `women's writing' in the Middle Ages."--Publisher's website.
Content: 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.
Abstract: This impressive and pioneering anthology presents extracts in the original Middle English of the various kinds of medieval texts in which women were involved. It explores their place in medieval literary culture and invites readers to judge whether there is such a thing as 'women's writing' in the Middle Ages.