Reading Medieval European Women Writers
Subtitle: Strong Literary Witnesses from the Past
Publisher: Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9783631674079
Subjects: Literature, medieval, history and criticism
Description: "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."--