Women Writing Latin: Medieval Modern Women Writing Latin / Edition 1

by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, Jane E. Jeffrey

Overview

This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume Two covers women's writing in Latin in the Middle Ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415941846
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/20/2002
Series:	Women Writers of the World , #6
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, Jane E. Jeffrey

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Women Writing Latin: An Introduction; Chapter 2 Radegund and the Letter of Foundation, Jane E. Jeffrey; Chapter 3 A Schoolgirl and Mistress Felhin: A Devout Petition from Ninth-Century Saxony, Steven A. Stofferahn; Chapter 4 Hrotsvit's Callimachus and the Art of Comedy, Mark Damen; Chapter 5 Sisters in the Literary Agon: Texts from Communities of Women on the Mortuary Roll of the Abbess Matilda of La Trinité, Caen, Daniel Sheerin; Chapter 6 Hildegard of Bingen: The Teutonic Prophetess, Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers; Chapter 7 The Problemata of Heloise, Anne Collins Smith; Chapter 8 Autobiography or Autohagiography? Decoding the Subtext in the Visions of Elisabeth of Schönau, Thalia A. Pandiri; Chapter 9 Herrad of Hohenbourg and the Poetry of the Hortus deliciarum: Cantat tibi cantica, Fiona Griffiths; Chapter 10 Anonymous Lives: Documents from the Benedictine Convent of Sant Pere de les Puelles, Linda McMillin; Chapter 11 Street Mysticism: An Introduction to The Life and Revelations of Agnes Blannbekin, Ulrike Wiethaus; Chapter 12 Birgitta Birgersdotter, Saint Bride of Sweden (1303?–1373), Sandra Straubhaar;