Women Writing Latin

This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume Three covers women's writing in Latin during the early modern period (1400-1700).

Autorentext
Katharina M. Wilson, Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, Jane E. Jeffrey

Klappentext

This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume Three covers women's writing in Latin during the early modern period (1400-1700).

Zusammenfassung
Volume three of this three-volume anthology covers women's writing in Latin during the early modern period (1400-1700). Each volume in the the anthology provides texts, contexts and translations of a wide variety of works by women.

Inhalt

Part 1 Women Writing Latin: An Introduction; Chapter 1 Radegund and the Letter of Foundation, Jane E. Jeffrey; Chapter 2 A Schoolgirl and Mistress Felhin: A Devout Petition from Ninth-Century Saxony, Steven A. Stofferahn; Chapter 3 Hrotsvit's Callimachus and the Art of Comedy, Mark Damen; Chapter 4 Sisters in the Literary Agon: Texts from Communities of Women on the Mortuary Roll of the Abbess Matilda of La Trinité, Caen, Daniel Sheerin; Chapter 5 Hildegard of Bingen: The Teutonic Prophetess, Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers; Chapter 6 The Problemata of Heloise, Anne Collins Smith; Chapter 7 Autobiography or Autohagiography? Decoding the Subtext in the Visions of Elisabeth of Schönau, Thalia A. Pandiri; Chapter 8 Herrad of Hohenbourg and the Poetry of the Hortus deliciarum: Cantat tibi cantica, Fiona Griffiths; Chapter 9 Anonymous Lives: Documents from the Benedictine Convent of Sant Pere de les Puelles, Linda McMillin; Chapter 10 Street Mysticism: An Introduction to The Life and Revelations of Agnes Blannbekin, Ulrike Wiethaus; Chapter 11 Birgitta Birgersdotter, Saint Bride of Sweden (1303?-1373), Sandra Straubhaar;