Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages

Speaking Internationally
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-84384-656-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 360 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 245 mm x 162 mm, Gewicht: 700 g

Reihe: Gender in the Middle Ages

Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and period boundaries.

Since the closing decades of the twentieth century, medieval women's writing has been the subject of energetic conversation and debate. This interest, however, has focused predominantly on western European writers working within the Christian tradition: the Saxon visionaries, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Gertrude the Great, for example, and, in England, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe are cases in point. While this present book acknowledges the huge importance of such writers to women's literary history, it also argues that they should no longer be read solely within a local context. Instead, by putting them into conversation with other literary women and their cultures from wider geographical regions and global cultures - women from eastern Europe and their books, dramas and music; the Welsh gwraig llwyn a pherth (woman of bush and brake); the Indian mystic, Mirabai; Japanese women writers from the Heian period; women saints from across Christian Europe and those of eleventh-century Islam or late medieval Ethiopia; for instance - much more is to be gained in terms of our understanding of the drivers behind and expressions of medieval women's literary activities in far broader contexts.

This volume considers the dialogue, synergies, contracts and resonances emerging from such new alignments, and to help a wider, multidirectional development of this enquiry into women's literary cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loveridge, Kathryn

Price, Vicki Kay

McAvoy, Liz Herbert

Niebrzydowski, Sue

Weitere Mitwirkende

Byron-Davies, Justin

De Dobbeleer, Michel

Gebreananaye, Meron

Hallas, Rhianydd

McAvoy, Liz Herbert

Hsy, Jonathan

Jagot, Shazia

Ko, Jeong-hee

Kay Price, Vicki

Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita

Lazikani, Ayoush

Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen

Loveridge, Kathryn

Modráková, Renáta

Niebrzydowski, Sue

Roberts, Sara Elin

Treharne, Elaine

Verini, Alexandra

Watt, Diane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Price, Vicki Kay
Vicki Kay Price was awarded her PhD by Bangor University, Wales, in 2021. Her research focuses on the appropriation of mercantile practice and language in late medieval and early modern women's writing, including their letters, life-writing, accounts, and wills - in particular, pre-modern women's involvement with business and money, and their use of financial and commercial language to record lived experience.

McAvoy, Liz Herbert
LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol.

Loveridge, Kathryn
Kathryn Loveridge was awarded her doctorate from Swansea University in 2021. Her research focuses on notions of gender and flesh, and, in particular, on the transgressive potential of Christ's body in late medieval Christianity, as manifested in non-canonical or overlooked texts.

Niebrzydowski, Sue
Sue Niebrzydowski is Professor in Medieval Literature at Bangor University. She has published widely in the areas of medieval women's writing and gender and devotion.

Kay Price, Vicki
Vicki Kay Price was awarded her PhD by Bangor University, Wales, in 2021. Her research focuses on the appropriation of mercantile practice and language in late medieval and early modern women's writing, including their letters, life-writing, accounts, and wills - in particular, pre-modern women's involvement with business and money, and their use of financial and commercial language to record lived experience.

Loveridge, Kathryn
Kathryn Loveridge was awarded her doctorate from Swansea University in 2021. Her research focuses on notions of gender and flesh, and, in particular, on the transgressive potential of Christ's body in late medieval Christianity, as manifested in non-canonical or overlooked texts.

Watt, Diane
Professor Diane Watt is Head of the School of English and Languages, University of Surrey. Secretaries of God won the 1998 Foster Watson Memorial Gift.

Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita
NAOË KUKITA YOSHIKAWA is Professor Emerita of Medieval English Literature at Shizuoka University, and Research Fellow at the Center for Medieval English Literary Text Studies, Meiji University, Japan.

McAvoy, Liz Herbert
LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol.

Roberts, Sara Elin
Sara Elin Roberts is a historian specialising in the law, literature and culture of Wales and the March from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. She has been working on medieval Welsh lawbooks for more than two decades.

Niebrzydowski, Sue
Sue Niebrzydowski is Professor in Medieval Literature at Bangor University. She has published widely in the areas of medieval women's writing and gender and devotion.