Dear Sister
Subtitle: medieval women and the epistolary genre
By: edited by Karen Cherewatuk and Ulrike Wiethaus.
Contributors: Cherewatuk, Karen.; Wiethaus, Ulrike.
Series: Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Letters -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Literature, Medieval -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Historiography.; Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.; Letter writing -- History -- To 1500.; Literary form -- History -- To 1500.
Other titles: Medieval women and the epistolary genre.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: Radegund and epistolary tradition / Karen Cherewatuk; title: Visions and rhetorical strategy in the letters of Hildegard of Bingen / Gillian T.W. Ahlgren; title: "Wholly guilty, wholly innocent" : self-definition in Heloise's letters to Abelard / Glenda McLeod; title: "Io Catarina" : ecclesiastical politics and oral culture in the letters of Catherine of Siena / Karen Scott; title: "No writing for writing's sake" : the language of service and household rhetoric in the letters of the Paston women / Diane Watt; title: "Seulette a part" : the "little woman  on the sidelines" takes up her pen : the letters of Christine de Pizan / Earl Jeffrey Richards; title: "If I had an iron body" : femininity and religion in the letters of Maria de Hout / Ulrike Wiethaus.