num_pages: 250
description: Focusing on women's access to a written culture and their representation in literature in late medieval Britain, this collection of essays explores their engagement with Anglo-Norman, English, Welsh and Latin. It addresses orality and literacy and women's exclusion from a written tradition.
language: English
title: Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500
titlecomplete: Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500
genres: Medieval
ratings_count: 4
places: Britain
publisher: Cambridge University Press