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Dear sister : medieval women and the epistolary genre /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cherewatuk, Karen, Wiethaus, Ulrike
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
Letters > Women authors > History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500 > Historiography.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : women writing letters in the Middle Ages / Karen Cherewatuk, Ulrike Wiethaus
  • Radegund and epistolary tradition / Karen Cherewatuk
  • Visions and rhetorical strategy in the letters of Hildegard of Bingen / Gillian T.W. Ahlgren
  • "Wholly guilty, wholly innocent" : self-definition in Héloïse's letters to Abélard / Glenda McLeod
  • "Io Catarina" : ecclesiastical politics and oral culture in the letters of Catherine of Siena / Karen Scott
  • "No writing for writing's sake" : the language of service and household rhetoric in the letters of the Paston women / Diane Watt
  • "Seulette a part" : the "little woman on the sidelines" takes up her pen : the letters of Christine de Pizan / Earl Jeffrey Richards
  • "If I had an iron body" : femininity and religion in the letters of Maria de Hout / Ulrike Wiethaus.