Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture - Authorship and Authority in a Female Community (Hardcover)

Barking Abbey (founded c. 666) is hugely significant for those studying the literary production by and patronage of medieval women. It had one of the largest libraries of any English nunnery, and a history of women's education from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Dissolution; it was also the home of women writers of Latin and Anglo-Norman works, as well as of many Middle English manuscript books.BR> The essays in this volume map its literary history, offering a wide-ranging examination of its liturgical, historio-hagiographical, devotional, doctrinal, and administrative texts, with a particular focus on the important hagiographies produced there during the twelfth century. It thus makes a major contribution to the literary and cultural history of medieval England and a rich resource for the teaching of women's texts. Professor Jennifer N. Brown teaches at Marymount Manhattan College; Professor Donna Alfano Bussell teaches at University of Illinois-Springfield. Contributors: Diane Auslander, Alexandra Barratt, Emma Berat, Jennifer N. Brown, Donna A. Bussell, Thelma Fenster, Stephanie Hollis, Thomas O'Donnell, Delbert Russell, Jill Stevenson, Kay Slocum, Lisa Weston, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Anne B. Yardley

General

Imprint:	York Medieval Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2012
First published:	2012
Editors:	Jennifer N. Brown (Contributor) • Donna Alfano Bussell (Customer)
Contributors:	Alexandra Barratt • Anne Bagnall Yardley (Contributor) • Delbert W Russell (Customer) • Diane Auslander (Contributor) • Donna Alfano Bussell (Customer) • Emma Berat (Contributor) • Jennifer N. Brown (Contributor) • Jill Stevenson (Customer)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	350
ISBN-13:	978-1-903153-43-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	1-903153-43-3
Barcode:	9781903153437

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