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Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace
• Part 1. Estates of women. Female childhoods / Daniel T. Kline ; Virginities / Ruth Evans ; Marriage / Dyan Elliott
• Widows / Barbara A. Hanawalt ; Between women / Karma Lochrie
• pt. 2. Texts and other spaces. ; Women and authorship / Jennifer Summit ; Enclosure / Christopher Cannon ; At home : out of the house / Sarah Salih ; Beneath the pulpit / Alcuin Blammires
• pt. 3. Medieval women. Heloise / Christopher Baswell ; Marie de France / Roberta L. Krueger ; The Roman de la Rose, Christine de Pizan, and the querelle des femmes / David F. Hult ; Lyrics and romances / Sarah McNamer ; Julian of Norwich / Nicholas Watson ; Margery Kempe / Carolyn Dinshaw ; Continental women mystics and English readers / Alexandra Barratt ; Joan of Arc / Nadia Margolis.

Contributors:

Wallace, David, 1954-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Subjects:

Literature, Medieval — Women authors — History and criticism

Women and literature — Europe — History — To 1500

Women in literature

To 1500

Literature, Medieval

Women and literature

Literature, Medieval — Women authors

Europe

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-283) and index.

Physical Description:

xix, 289 pages ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

PN682.W6 C36 2003

ISBNs:

052179188X (hardback)
9780521791885 (hardback)
0521796385 (pbk.)
9780521796385 (pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2003273212

OCLC Numbers:

51963918