Laurie Finke

Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages

Arts & Literature

“A volume of the first importance to the scholarship of medieval women writers . . . An ambitious attempt to understand what ‘gender’ and ‘text’ might have meant in the Middle Ages from the perspective of the woman writer and reader rather than through the more usual androcentric lens . . . [The] collection brings together for the first time in one place essays about a whole range of women writers from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries and from places as distant as Spain and Sweden, as well as the more well-known French and English writers.”