Laurie J. Churchill (ed.)

Women Writing Latin

Early Modern Women Writing Latin
Herausgegeben:Churchill, Laurie J.; Brown, Phyllis R.; Jeffrey, Jane E.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume Three covers women's writing in Latin during the early modern period (1400-1700).

Produktdetails

• Women Writers of the World
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780415941853
• ISBN-10: 0415941857
• Artikelnr.: 21824805

Autorenporträt

Katharina M. Wilson, Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, Jane E. Jeffrey

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Women Writing Latin: An Introduction; Chapter 1 Radegund and the
Letter of Foundation, Jane E. Jeffrey; Chapter 2 A Schoolgirl and Mistress
Felhin: A Devout Petition from Ninth-Century Saxony, Steven A. Stofferahn;
Chapter 3 Hrotsvit's Callimachus and the Art of Comedy, Mark Damen; Chapter
4 Sisters in the Literary Agon: Texts from Communities of Women on the
Mortuary Roll of the Abbess Matilda of La Trinité, Caen, Daniel Sheerin;
Chapter 5 Hildegard of Bingen: The Teutonic Prophetess, Tatiana
Tsakiropoulou-Summers; Chapter 6 The Problemata of Heloise, Anne Collins
Smith; Chapter 7 Autobiography or Autohagiography? Decoding the Subtext in
the Visions of Elisabeth of Schönau, Thalia A. Pandiri; Chapter 8 Herrad of
Hohenbourg and the Poetry of the Hortus deliciarum: Cantat tibi cantica,
Fiona Griffiths; Chapter 9 Anonymous Lives: Documents from the Benedictine
Convent of Sant Pere de les Puelles, Linda McMillin; Chapter 10 Street
Mysticism: An Introduction to The Life and Revelations of Agnes Blannbekin,
Ulrike Wiethaus; Chapter 11 Birgitta Birgersdotter, Saint Bride of Sweden
(1303?-1373), Sandra Straubhaar;