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020 $a9783631674079 (Print)
020 $a3631674074 (Print)
020 $z9783653067415 (E-Book)
035 $a(OCoLC)945434194
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040 $aNNC$beng$erda$cNNC
050 4 $aPN682.W6$bC57 2016
100 1 $aClassen, Albrecht,$eauthor.
245 10 $aReading medieval European women writers :$bstrong literary witnesses from the past /$cAlbrecht Classen.
264 1 $aFrankfurt am Main ;$aNew York :$bPeter Lang,$c[2016].
300 $a430 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Despite a modern tendency to describe medieval women as suppressed and marginalized, a critical reading of relevant texts by female poets/writers demonstrates that women all over Europe in the premodern era enjoyed considerable freedom to express themselves and to contribute to the literary discourse of their time. This book brings together representative poets from Germany, England, France, Spain, Hungary, and Austria and thus develops an innovative pan-European perspective spanning from the tenth to the sixteenth century. Well-known writers are as much included as some rather little studied individuals, who all form part of a strong choir of female voices."--$cProvided by publisher
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 357-424) and index.
505 0 $aThe early medieval convent as a center of literary activities: The canoness Hrotsvit of Gandersheim -- Marie de France: a "bestseller" author from the high middle ages: A cultural and linguistic mediator in literary terms -- Julian of Norwich: One of those mystics...: A powerful voice of love in the English Late Middle Ages -- Leonor López de Córdoba (1363-1430): A female author in-between genres: Self-reflection and literary self-projection in late medieval Castilian literature -- Christine de Pizan: a woman finds herself through the poetic word -- Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken: A great German female novelist from the fifteenth century -- Eleonore of Austria's Pontus und Sidonia (ca. 1450): a duchess promotes courtly mores and ethical values through a translation project, Or: the Scottish princess at an Austrian court: Women as cultural-literary ambassadors across Europe -- The German-Hungarian writer Helene Kottanner: A female writer in the center of political turmoil and struggle -- Epilogue.
650 0 $aLiterature, Medieval$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
650 0 $aEuropean literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zEurope$xHistory.
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