Description
Book SynopsisDespite 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.
Trade Review«Es ist [...] zu wünschen, dass dieses wichtige Buch eine große Verbreitung erfährt und seine Funktion nicht nur als neues Standardwerk zum Thema erfüllt, sondern auch darüber hinaus ein neues Literaturverständnis begründet.»
(Bea Lundt, Mediaevisitik 29/2016)
Table of ContentsContents: Medieval European women writers – Hrotsvit of Gandersheim – Marie de France – Christine de Pizan – Julian of Norwich – Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken – Eleonore of Austria – Helene Kottaner(in) – Leonor López de Córdoba – Marguerite de Navarre.
