Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture, C. 1150-1300: Virginity and Its Authorizations

By Jocelyn Wogan-Browne

Writing by and for women in the twelfth and thirteenth century in England is less well known than that of the later medieval period of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe. This is the first book-length exploration of this rich literary culture embracing several vernaculars as well as Latin.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198112793
• ISBN13: 9780198112792
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.4"