Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts Maude Kathryn
Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts Maude Kathryn From the tenth to the twelfth centuries in England and Scotland we have scant evidence of women's writing. It examines religious texts…
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Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts Maude Kathryn
From the tenth to the twelfth centuries in England and Scotland we have scant evidence of women's writing. It examines religious texts addressed to women, bringing together works that are more widely studied with others that are less well known, and demonstrates continuities across Old English and Latin texts written for female readers and patrons across the Conquest period. How, then, can we access these women's experiences?This book argues that by analysing texts deliberately written forand addressed directly to women we gain an insight into the horizons of possibility for their lives.
Case studies, ranging from lfric's sermons to Aelred's De institutione inclusarum, from the Life of Christina of Markyate to Goscelin's saints' lives for Wilton and Barking Abbeys, attend to the intimate scripts women were encouraged to inhabit through a close focus on the form of
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