Description |
xxvi, 536 pages ; 21 cm |
Series |
Garland library of medieval literature ; v. 100B |
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Garland library of medieval literature ; v. 100
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Contents |
Prisoner, dreamer, martyr : Perpetua of Carthage -- A pilgrim to the Holy Land : Egeria of Spain -- Calumniated empress and poet : Eudocia of Constantinople -- An ill-fated Gothic queen : Amalasuintha of Italy -- Three consecrated women of Merovingian Gaul : Radegund of Poitiers ; Caesaria of Arles -- Baudonivia of Poitiers -- "Words flowing like gold fringes" : an anonymous letter-writer of the sixth century Eucheria of Marseilles -- Barbarian women, holy women : The wife's lament ; Wulf and Eadwacer ; Leoba of England and Germany -- Mother to a young writer : Dhuoda of Uzès --Hagiographer, playwright, epic historian : Hrotswitha of Gandersheim -- A Byzantine historian of the First Crusade : Anna Comnena -- |
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The Trobairitz in love and strife : Tibors ; Bieris de Romans ; Lombarda ; Almuc de Castelnou and Iseut de Capio ; Alaisina, Iselda, and Carenza ; Gormonda ; Azalais de Porcairagues ; The Countess of Dia ; Anonymous -- "Marie is my name : I am of France" : Marie de France -- Good Queen Maud : Matilda, Queen of the English people -- A Benedictine visionary in the Rhineland / Hildegard of Bingen -- Handmaid of God : Elisabeth of Schönau -- Brides of the celestial bedchamber : Mechthild of Magdeburg ; Beatrijs of Nazareth -- A woman of letters at the French court : CHristine de Pizan -- An anchoress of England : Julian of Norwich -- Four English women of the fifteenth century : Margery Kempe ; Julians Barnes ; Queen Margaret of Anjou ; Margery Brews Paston |
Analysis |
Literature By Women |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
European literature -- Women authors.
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Literature, Medieval.
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Author |
Thiébaux, Marcelle.
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LC no. |
93036822 |
ISBN |
0815304099 |
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0815313926 (acid-free paper : pbk.) |
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