Women and Literature in Britain, 11501500 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 28, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780521400183
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Women authors; Sociology; History and criticism; Unassigned Title; Middle English Literature; Women In English Literature; Social Science; English; Literary Criticism; Middle English, 1100-1500; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gender Studies; Social Science / Gender Studies; Women and literature--Great Britain--History; To 1500; Women and literature; Anglo-Norman literature; English literature; Great Britain; History
First sentence: Assumptions about the role of women in medieval romance have often sprung from a supposition that their general lack of power and influence in medieval society must necessarily be reflected by powerlessness in that society's fiction.