Women Writing Latin

Medieval Modern Women Writing Latin
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-94184-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 638 g

Reihe: Women Writers of the World

This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume Two covers women's writing in Latin in the Middle Ages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Churchill, Laurie J.

Brown, Phyllis R.

Jeffrey, Jane E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Women Writing Latin: An Introduction; Chapter 2 Radegund and the Letter of Foundation, Jane E. Jeffrey; Chapter 3 A Schoolgirl and Mistress Felhin: A Devout Petition from Ninth-Century Saxony, Steven A. Stofferahn; Chapter 4 Hrotsvit's Callimachus and the Art of Comedy, Mark Damen; Chapter 5 Sisters in the Literary Agon: Texts from Communities of Women on the Mortuary Roll of the Abbess Matilda of La Trinité, Caen, Daniel Sheerin; Chapter 6 Hildegard of Bingen: The Teutonic Prophetess, Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers; Chapter 7 The Problemata of Heloise, Anne Collins Smith; Chapter 8 Autobiography or Autohagiography? Decoding the Subtext in the Visions of Elisabeth of Schönau, Thalia A. Pandiri; Chapter 9 Herrad of Hohenbourg and the Poetry of the Hortus deliciarum: Cantat tibi cantica, Fiona Griffiths; Chapter 10 Anonymous Lives: Documents from the Benedictine Convent of Sant Pere de les Puelles, Linda McMillin; Chapter 11 Street Mysticism: An Introduction to The Life and Revelations of Agnes Blannbekin, Ulrike Wiethaus; Chapter 12 Birgitta Birgersdotter, Saint Bride of Sweden (1303?–1373), Sandra Straubhaar;

Über Autor(innen)

Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, Jane E. Jeffrey