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Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650-1100 (Paperback)
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Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650-1100 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Early Medieval History
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Women's literary histories usually start in the later Middle Ages,
but recent scholarship has shown that actually women were at the
heart of the emergence of the English literary tradition. Women,
Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650-1100 focuses on the
period before the so-called 'Barking Renaissance' of women's
writing in the 12th century. By examining the surviving evidence of
women's authorship, as well as the evidence of women's engagement
with literary culture more widely, Diane Watt argues that early
women's writing was often lost, suppressed, or deliberately
destroyed. In particular she considers the different forms of male
'overwriting', to which she ascribes the multiple connotations of
'destruction', 'preservation', 'control' and 'suppression'. She
uses the term to describe the complex relationship between male
authors and their female subjects to capture the ways in which
texts can attempt to control and circumscribe female autonomy.
Written by one of the leading experts in medieval women's writing,
Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650-1100
examines women's literary engagement in monasteries such as Ely,
Whitby, Barking and Wilton Abbey, as well as letters and
hagiographies from the 8th and 9th centuries. Diane Watt provides a
much-needed look at women's writing in the early medieval period
that is crucial to understanding women's literary history more
broadly.
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