Women and literature in Britain, 1150-1500

Description:

This collection of essays focuses on the questions of women's access to a written culture in medieval Britain and their representation within it. It explores women's engagement with Anglo-Norman, English and Welsh as well as Latin, and addresses issues including orality and literacy and women's exclusion from a written tradition. It considers the question of the levels of literacy attained by women, and contemporary attitudes to their acquisition of such skills, as well as the historical evidence for women's activity as writers, patrons and readers. It also examines the representation of women within different literary genres, both secular and religious - their possession or lack of power, and their roles as lovers, mothers and saints.

subjects: British literature,  English literature,  Anglo-Norman literature,  History and criticism,  Medieval Literature,  Books and reading,  Women authors,  Women and literature,  History,  Women,  Welsh literature,  Middle Ages, 500-1500,  Great Britain,  English literature, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500,  Anglo-norman literature, history and criticism,  Literature, medieval, history and criticism,  English literature, women authors,  Women, history, middle ages, 500-1500,  Women in literature

Places: Great Britain

Times: Middle Ages, 500-1500,  Middle English, 1100-1500