This collection of essays focuses on the questions of women's
access to a written culture in medieval Britain and their
representation within it. It explores women's engagement with
Anglo-Norman, English and Welsh as well as Latin, and addresses
issues including orality and literacy and women's exclusion from a
written tradition. It considers the question of the levels of
literacy attained by women, and contemporary attitudes to their
acquisition of such skills, as well as the historical evidence for
women's activity as writers, patrons and readers. It also examines
the representation of women within different literary genres, both
secular and religious - their possession or lack of power, and
their roles as lovers, mothers and saints. This is the first such
volume to focus on these issues within the specific framework of
late medieval Britain, and as such constitutes a unique
contribution to the study of women and medieval literary history.
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