Women's Friendship in Medieval Literature / Karma Lochrie, Usha Vishnuvajjala.

• Superior document: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
• TeilnehmendeR: Lochrie, Karma; Vishnuvajjala, Usha
• Place / Publishing House: Columbus, OH : : The Ohio State University Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

In Women's Friendship in Medieval Literature, Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala bring together established scholars and new voices to illuminate a previously understudied but consequential element of life in the Middle Ages. Contributors focus on representations of women's friendships i...

Table of Contents

• Female friendships and visionary women / Jennifer N. Brown
• The foundations of friendship: Amicitia, literary production, and spiritual community in Marie de France / Stella Wang
• Friendship and resistance in the Vitae of Italian holy women / Andrea Boffa
• Sisters and friends: the medieval nuns of Syon Abbey / Alexandra Verini
• "Amonge maydenes moo": gender-based community, racial thinking, and aristocratic women's work in Emaré / Lydia Yaitsky Kertz
• Women's communities and the possibility of friendship in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur / Usha Vishnuvajjala
• Female friendship in late medieval English literature: cultural translation in Chaucer, Gower, and Malory / Melissa Ridley Elmes
• Cultivating cummarship: female friendship, alcohol, and pedagogical community in the alewife poem / Carissa M. Harris
• "All these relationships between women": Chaucer and the Bechdel test for female friendship / Karma Lochrie
• The politics of virtual friendship in Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies / Christine Chism
• Prosthetic friendship and the theater of fraternity / Laurie A. Finke
• Conversations among friends: Ælfflæd, Iurminburg, and the arts of storytelling / Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing
• Afterword: Friendship at a distance / Penelope Anderson.