Gunn, Cate
(ed.)
McAvoy, Liz Herbet
(ed.)
Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita
(ed.)
Editorial: Boydell & Brewer
Colección: Gender in the Middle Ages ; 21
Número de páginas: 332 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-11-2023
EAN: 9781843846628
ISBN: 978-1-84384-662-8
Precio (sin IVA): 113,66 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 118,21 €
Following the example of the Virgin Mary, religious women were exhorted to speak seldom, and then only seriously and devoutly. However, as this volume shows, such gendered exhortations to silence were often more rhetorical than literal. The contributions range widely: they consider the English 'Wooing Group' texts and female-authored visionary writings from the Saxon nunnery of Helfta in the thirteenth century; works by Richard Rolle and the Dutch mystic Jan van Ruusbroec in the fourteenth century; Anglo-French treatises, and books housed in the library of the English noblewoman Cecily Neville in the fifteenth century; and the resonant poetics of women from non-Christian cultures.