Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650–1100

Diane Watt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-7062-5 (ISBN)

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Women’s literary histories usually start in the later Middle Ages, but recent scholarship has shown that actually women were at the heart of the emergence of the English literary tradition. Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650–1100 focuses on the period before the so-called ‘Barking Renaissance’ of women’s writing in the 12th century. By examining the surviving evidence of women’s authorship, as well as the evidence of women’s engagement with literary culture more widely, Diane Watt argues that early women’s writing was often lost, suppressed, or deliberately destroyed. In particular she considers the different forms of male ‘overwriting’, to which she ascribes the multiple connotations of ‘destruction’, ‘preservation’, ‘control’ and ‘suppression’. She uses the term to describe the complex relationship between male authors and their female subjects to capture the ways in which texts can attempt to control and circumscribe female autonomy.

Written by one of the leading experts in medieval women’s writing, Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650–1100 examines women’s literary engagement in monasteries such as Ely, Whitby, Barking and Wilton Abbey, as well as letters and hagiographies from the 8th and 9th centuries. Diane Watt provides a much-needed look at women’s writing in the early medieval period that is crucial to understanding women’s literary history more broadly.

Diane Watt is Professor of English at the University of Surrey, UK. Her previous books include The History of British Women’s Writing, 700 to 1500 (2012, co-edited with Liz Herbert McAvoy), and Medieval Women’s Writing: Works by and for Women in England, 1100–1500 (2007).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Texts and Translations
General Map

Introduction
1 Women’s Literary Communities at Ely and Whitby
2 Women Writing at Barking and Minster-in-Thanet
3 Missionary Women’s Letters and Poetry
4 Exemplary Missionary Lives
5 (Re)writing Women’s History at Wilton Abbey
6 Textual Intimacies in and beyond Wilton

Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Early Medieval History
Zusatzinfo	6 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4742-7062-X / 147427062X
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-7062-5 / 9781474270625
Zustand	Neuware