Library of Medieval Women – serie
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Anne of France: Lessons for my Daughter
Häftad, 2012
345 kr
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Anne of France (1461-1522) composed these lessons - presented as a portrait of an ideal princess - as guidance in negotiating the pitfalls facing a woman in the world of politics. First English translation.Anne of France (1461-1522), daughter of Louis XI and sister of Charles VIII, was one of the …
Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector
Häftad, 1997
382 kr
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Christine de Pizan (1364-?1430) was the first French woman poet to make her living by the pen, and the first female interpreter of classical myths; she held enormous power in the French court and influenced late medieval culture in France and in England in a number of ways. The Letter of Othea to …
Writings of Margaret of Oingt
Medieval Prioress and Mystic
Häftad, 1990
283 kr
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Margaret of Oingt was born around 1240 into a noble family in the French Beaujolais region, and became prioress of the Carthusian charterhouse of Poletains; visionary and mystic, her writings are intelligent and humorous. Includedhere are the Page of Meditations, on sin and salvation; the Mirror, a …
Writings of Teresa de Cartagena
Häftad, 1998
352 kr
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Translation, with full explanatory notes, of the two works of Teresa de Cartagena, the fifteenth-century Spanish nun.This affordable, engaging and important translation of Teresa de Cartagena's works significantly expands and enriches the current canon of medieval women writers. ANNE CLARK …
Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love and The Motherhood of God
Av Frances Beer
Häftad, 1998
313 kr
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Frances Beer chooses Julian's first, more intimate, Revelations on which to base this accessible edition and study of her life and work.Despite the strange and distant nature of her life and subject-matter, the works of Julian of Norwich remain immediate and compelling. Her Revelations are recorded …
Memoirs of Helene Kottanner (1439-1440)
Häftad, 1998
266 kr
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Eye-witness account of the theft of the crown of St Stephen in 15c Hungary.Helene Kottanner was servant and confidante of the widowed Queen Elizabeth of Hungary (1409-1442). This is her first-person account of the part she played in the theft of the holy crown of St Stephen from the treasury of the …
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
A Florilegium of her Works
Häftad, 1998
289 kr
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Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics.Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c.935 - c.975), almost certainly of noble Saxon parentage, was a canoness of the Saxon imperial abbey of Gandersheim, living and working there during its time of …
Hildegard of Bingen: On Natural Philosophy and Medicine
Selections from Cause et Cure
Häftad, 1999
345 kr
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Medieval attitudes to health and treatment revealed in Hildegard's treatise.Hildegard of Bingen [1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in recent years. Cause et Cure, attributed to Hildegard, is both a cosmological text and a medical …
Angela of Foligno's Memorial
Av Cristina Mazzoni, Cristina Mazzoni
Häftad, 2000
382 kr
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The powerful voice of major Italian medieval woman mystic, translated with commentary.Angela of Foligno is considered by many as the greatest mystical voice among Italian medieval women. She devoted herself to a relentless pursuit of God when as a middle-aged woman she lost her mother, husband and …
Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose
Häftad, 1999
345 kr
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Translations of eight saints' lives, giving an insight into women's religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England.Devout, virtuous and independent, the heroines of Old English saints' lives (one of the most popular literary genres of the middle ages) provided exemplars of personal and public inspiration …
Saint Bride and her Book
Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations
Av Bridget
Häftad, 1990
382 kr
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A modern English version of the Middle English text of Birgitta's Revelations made at the Birgittine Syon Abbey in England, in which the scribes extracted their favourite episodes from the longer Latin version.Saint Birgitta of Sweden (canonised in 1391) is one of the most important female figures …
Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters
Noblewomen in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia
Av John Klassen, Eva Dolezalová m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
352 kr
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Women in 15c Bohemia express themselves on marriage, companionship, daily castle life, and family relations.The letters of the Rozmberk sisters, Perchta and Anézka, give a vivid insight into how medieval women viewed themselves. Perchta's letters inform her father that his choice of a husband for …
Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine: Life and Revelations
Av Ulrike Wiethaus, Ulrike Wiethaus
Inbunden, 2002
904 kr
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Female mysticism, usually nourished in contemplative surroundings, in Blannbekin's case drew its inspiration from urban life; Weidhaus identifies her visions as 'street mysticism'.This early example of a spiritual diary incorporating the visions of a female mystic offers a glimpse of religious …
Paston Women: Selected Letters
Av Diane Watt
Häftad, 2004
345 kr
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The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing.The Paston letters form one of only two surviving collections of fifteenth-century correspondence, in their case especially rich in letters from the women of the family. Clandestine love affairs, secret …
Women's Books of Hours in Medieval England
Inbunden, 2006
1242 kr
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English translation of a variety of texts from women's books of hours, with introduction, notes, and an interpretive essay.The book of hours is said to have been the most popular book owned by the laity in the later Middle Ages. This volume brings together a selection of texts taken from books of …
Life of Saint Douceline, a Beguine of Provence
Translated from the Occitan with Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay
Av Kathleen Garay, Madeleine Jeay
Häftad, 2008
352 kr
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Douceline de Digne, founder of the beguine community of the Ladies of Roubaud in Provence, was an important woman mystic of her time; contextual material includes comparison with the beguines of northern Europe.The Life of Douceline de Digne introduces to an English-speaking audience a 13th-century …
Old Norse Women's Poetry
The Voices of Female Skalds
Inbunden, 2011
1415 kr
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Text, with English translation in two formats, of all the Old Norse poetry attributed to women - skáldkonur.The rich and compelling corpus of Old Norse poetry is one of the most important and influential areas of medieval European literature. What is less well known, however, is the quantity of the …
Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine: Life and Revelations
Häftad, 2012
318 kr
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Female mysticism, usually nourished in contemplative surroundings, in Blannbekin's case drew its inspiration from urban life; Weithaus identifies her visions as "street mysticism".This early example of a spiritual diary incorporating the visions of a female mystic offers a glimpse of religious …
Goscelin of St Bertin: The Book of Encouragement and Consolation [Liber Confortatorius]
Häftad, 2012
345 kr
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Late eleventh-century spiritual counsel for a woman recluse, anticipating medieval advice literature for anchoresses.Goscelin's Liber Confortatorius is extraordinary both as an example of high-medieval spiritual practice and as a record of a personal relationship. Written in about 1083 by the monk …
Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century Convents
Häftad, 2012
300 kr
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Collection of letters and texts offering guidance for nuns, and including selections from Abelard's letters to Heloise.These translated letters and texts composed for younger and older women in twelfth-century convents illuminate the powerful medieval ideals of virginity and chastity. Abelard's …
Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry
Secular and Religious Songs
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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A considerable collection of German women's poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research.Although there were a number of outstanding women writers of the late middle ages, it was not thought that women composed lyric poetry. Classen proves this to be a misconception, presenting …
Mechthild of Magdeburg: Selections from The Flowing Light of the Godhead
Häftad, 2012
345 kr
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Selections from this widely varied original mystical treatise offer insight into the lives of C13 female religious in northern Europe.Here is one of the great surprises of German medieval literature. Compiled between c.1250 and c.1282, it is an extraordinary piece of imaginative writing. It …
Vision of Christine de Pizan
Häftad, 2012
345 kr
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Translation of Christine's autobiographical Vision, both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled state of France at the time.Christine de Pizan's The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry …
Women of the Gilte Legende
A Selection of Middle English Saints Lives
Häftad, 2012
332 kr
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The first modern translation of one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages.The Gilte Legende was widely read as a model for everyday life, including the education of women through examples set by early Christian martyrs. This book divides the lives of female saints into: the …
Women's Books of Hours in Medieval England
Häftad, 2012
345 kr
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English translation of a variety of texts from women's books of hours, with introduction, notes, and an interpretive essay.The book of hours is said to have been the most popular book owned by the laity in the later Middle Ages. This volume brings together a selection of texts taken from books of …
A Revelation of Purgatory
Inbunden, 2017
1415 kr
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Translation and facing text of an important female-authored work from the late middle ages.A Revelation of Purgatory was written by an unnamed woman, almost certainly an anchoress, in Winchester in 1422. It details from a first-person perspective a series of terrifying visions experienced by the …
The Book of Margery Kempe
Abridged Translation, Introduction, Notes
Häftad, 2003
228 kr
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Margery Kempe's text draws on her maternal, female body to illuminate her relationship to the divine.A unique narrative of sin, sex and salvation, The Book of Margery Kempe comprises a text which has continued to perplex and fascinate contemporary audiences since its discovery in the library of an …
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