Medieval women in their communities /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Watt, Diane, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Toronto ; Buffalo : [1997]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Desire to corrupt: convent and community in medieval Wales / Jane Cartwright
  • Puellae litteratae: the use of the vernacular in the Dominican convents of southern Germany / Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner
  • All girls together: community, gender and vision at Helfta / Rosalynn Voaden
  • 'Discreet and devout maidens': women's involvement in beguine communities in northern France, 1200-1500 / Penelope Galloway
  • Mysticism and the Anchoritic community: 'A time ... of veiled infinity' / Susannah Mary Chewning
  • Communities of otherness in Chaucer's Merchant's tale / Cynthia Kraman
  • Communities of dissent: the secular and ecclesiastical communities of Margery Kempe's Book / Janet Wilson
  • English noblewomen and the local community in the later Middle Ages / Jennifer C. Ward
  • Gender and poverty in the medieval community / Patricia Skinner
  • Between doctrine and domesticity: the portrayal of Mary in the N-Town plays / J.A. Tasioulas.