This is one of the first anthologies devoted to the writings of women in the Middle Ages. The fifteen women whose works are represented span seven centuries, ei

This book gives a detailed picture of the contributions made by women writers to Western literature from the third century to the thirteenth. Many of the texts

This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant t

Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it i

This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward wo