This is one of the first anthologies devoted to the writings of
women in the Middle Ages. The fifteen women whose works are
represented span seven centuries, eight languages, and ten regions
or nationalities. Many are recognized, taught, and anthologized in
their own countries but have been inaccessible to students in
English. Others are little read today because their literary
fortunes have paralleled fluctuations in literary taste and
literary patronage.
Katharina M. Wilson's introduction to the volume places these
writers in historical context and explores the question of the
female imagination and who these women were who were writing at a
time when very few women were literate and most literature, sacred
and secular, was penned by men. Each of the fifteen chapters has
been written by a different scholar and includes a biographical and
critical introduction to the writer, a representative selection of
her works in translation, and a bibliography.
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