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Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing: Reading the Book of Life
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This volume examines the common medieval notion of life experience as a source of wisdom and traces that theme through different texts and genres to uncover the fabric of experience woven into the writings by, for, and about women.
This volume examines the common medieval notion of life experience as a source of wisdom and traces that theme through different texts and genres to uncover the fabric of experience woven into the writings by, for, and about women.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
New Middle Ages
Condition
New
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230602878
SKU
V9780230602878
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99-1
About Unknown
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.
Reviews for Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing: Reading the Book of Life
"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. ... Read more