Early English devotional prose and the female audience / Elizabeth Robertson
1990, 1st edition. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426789
ISBN: 0870496417
Physical description; x, 227 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-220) and index. Contents; Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The implications of illiteracy fort he development of Middle English literature -- Chapter 2. An anchorhold of her own : the anchoress in thirteenth-century England -- Chapter 3. medieval views of female spirituality -- Chapter 4. The rule of the body : the female spirituality of the Ancrene Wisse -- Chapter 5. The perfect marriage : Hali Meidenhad -- 6. The triumph of female spirituality : the lives of St. Katherine, St. Margaret, and St. Juliana -- Chapter 7. Allegory and the emotions in "Sawles Warde" -- Chapter 8. The AB texts and the Anglo-Saxon tradition -- Chapter 9. The female reader and twelfth-century notions of the physical -- Chapter 10. The question of female style. -- Notes -- List of works cited -- Index. Subjects; To 1500. English prose literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism. Christian literature, English (Middle) History and criticism. Devotional literature, English (Middle) History and criticism. Devotional literature, English History and criticism. Women Books and reading England History To 1500. Women and literature England History To 1500. Women Religious life England History To 1500. Women England History Middle Ages, 500-1500. Authors and readers England History To 1500. Religious thought Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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