Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages

Speaking Internationally
Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and period boundaries.
Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and period boundaries.Since the closing decades of the twentieth century, medieval women's writing has been the subject of energetic conversation and debate. This interest, however, has focused predominantly on western European writers working within the Christian tradition: the Saxon visionaries, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Gertrude the Great, for example, and, in England, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe are cases in point. While this present book acknowledges the huge importance of such writers to women's literary history, it also argues that they should no longer be read solely within a local context. Instead, by putting them into conversation with other literary women and their cultures from wider geographical regions and global cultures - women from eastern Europe and their books, dramas and music; the Welsh gwraig llwyn a pherth (woman of bush and brake); the Indian mystic, Mirabai; Japanese women writers from the Heian period; women saints from across Christian Europe and those of eleventh-century Islam or late medieval Ethiopia; for instance - much more is to be gained in terms of our understanding of the drivers behind and expressions of medieval women's literary activities in far broader contexts. This volume considers the dialogue, synergies, contracts and resonances emerging from such new alignments, and to help a wider, multidirectional development of this enquiry into women's literary cultures.

Contributor: Vicki Kay Price (Edited by), Kathryn Loveridge (Edited by), Meron Gebreananaye (Contributions by), Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan (Contributions by), Vicki Kay Price (Contributions by), Jonathan Hsy (Contributions by), Ko Jeong-hee (Contributions by), Liz Herbert McAvoy (Contributions by), Elaine Treharne (Contributions by), Renáta Modráková (Contributions by), Ayoush Lazikani (Contributions by), Kathryn Loveridge (Contributions by), Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa (Contributions by), Sara Elin Roberts (Contributions by), Michel De Dobbeleer (Contributions by), Diane Watt (Contributions by), Sue Niebrzydowski (Edited by), Alexandra Verini (Contributions by), Liz Herbert McAvoy (Edited by), Sue Niebrzydowski (Contributions by), Rhianydd Hallas (Contributions by), Justin Byron-Davies (Contributions by), Shazia Jagot (Contributions by)

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