Reading medieval European women writers : strong literary witnesses from the past /
Classen, Albrecht,author.
Includes bibliographical references.
The 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.
Literature, Medieval
Women in literature.
Literature, Medieval
Women in literature.