The Writings of Medieval Women

An Anthology

Marcelle Thiebaux

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9780429618987
• Edition: 2
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Published in 1994: The period surveyed in this anthology extends from the eve of Christianity's triumph, in the third century, to the new age of expansion in the fifteenth century, an age marked by the advent of printing pressed, the European discovery of the Caribbean islands, which Columbus called the Indies, the relentless stripping of medieval altars by Church reformists, and perhaps a diminution of female autonomy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Select Bibliography
• 1. Prisoner, Dreamer, Martyr
• 2. A Pilgrim to the Holy Land
• 3. Calumniated Empress and Poet
• 4. An Ill-Fated Gothic Queen
• 5. Three Consecrated Women of Merovingian Gaul
• 6. “Words Flowing Like Gold Fringes”
• 7. Barbarian Women, Holy Women
• 8. Mother to a Young Warrior
• 9. Hagiographer, Playwright, Epic Historian
• 10. A Byzantine Historian of the First Crusade
• 11. The Trobairitz in Love and Strife
• 12. “Marie Is My Name: I Am of France”
• 13. Good Queen Maud
• 14. A Benedictine Visionary in the Rhineland
• 15. Handmaid of God
• 16. Brides of the Celestial Bedchamber
• 17. A Woman of Letters at the French Court
• 18. An Anchoress of England
• 19. Four English Women of the Fifteenth Century
• Index