TY  - BOOK
AU  - Albrecht Classen
PY  - 2016
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653067415
TI  - Reading Medieval European Women Writers
T2  - Strong Literary Witnesses from the Past
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-06741-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050271
N2  - Despite 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.
KW  - Medieval Gender Studies, Interdisciplinary literary studies, Mysticism, Medieval women's literature
LA  - English
ER  -