Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing: Reading the Book of Life (New Middle Ages) (The New Middle Ages)

ANNEKE MULDER-BAKKER taught Medieval History and Medieval Studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands and is now Emerita at the University of Leiden. Liz Herbert McAvoy is Senior Lecturer in Gender, English Studies, and Medieval Literature at the University of Swansea.

Title: Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing: Reading the Book of Life (New Middle Ages) (The New Middle Ages)

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ISBN: 9780230602878

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-05-19

Number of Pages: 194

Weight: 0.2949 kg

The editors of this volume emphasize the importance of communities of discourse in the sharing of knowledge in informal contexts, including domestic settings . . . Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing invites us to rethink the perceived dichotomy between male or masculine learning and female or feminine experience. Indeed it goes so far as to challenge its validity. In so doing it invites us to reconsider our very understanding of what constitutes education. - Diane Watt, Professor of English, Aberystwyth University and author of Medieval Women s Writing and Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England