Male Authors, Female Readers : : Representation and Subjectivity in Middle English Devotional Literature / / Anne Clark Bartlett.
"Holy men despise women.and view them as foul and sticking dirt in the road," asserst the male author of the fifteenth-century Book to a Mother. Middle English devotional writings reflect shades of mysogony ranging from the blatant to the subtle, yet these texts were among the most popular...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Reading Medieval Women Reading Devotional Literature
- II. Gendering and Regendering: The Case of De institutione inclusarum
- III. ”Letters of Love”: Feminine Courtesy and Religious Instruction
- IV. ”Ghostly Sister in Jesus Christ”: Spiritual Friendship and Sexual Politics
- V. ”I Would Have Been One of Them”: Translation, Contemplation, and Gender
- Afterword: Beyond Misogyny(?)
- Appendix: A Descriptive List of Extant Books Owned by Medieval English Nuns and Convents
- Bibliography
- Index