Women's Books of Hours in Medieval England

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• English translation of a variety of texts from women's books of hours, with introduction, notes, and an interpretive essay. The book of hours is said ... Lees meer

Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• A considerable collection of German women's poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research. Although there were a number of outstanding... Lees meer

Mechthild of Magdeburg: Selections from the Flowing Light of the Godhead

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Selections from this widely varied original mystical treatise offer insight into the lives of C13 female religious in northern Europe. Here is one of ... Lees meer

Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector

Jane Jane Chance

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Christine de Pizan (1364-?1430) was the first French woman poet to make her living by the pen, and the first female interpreter of classical myths; sh... Lees meer

Goscelin of St Bertin: The Book of Encouragement and Consolation [Liber Confortatorius]

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Goscelin of St Bertin's 'Book of Encouragement and Consolation' (Liber Confortatorius) is extraordinary both as an example of high-medieval spiritual ... Lees meer

Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine: Life and Revelations

Ulrike Wiethaus

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Female mysticism, usually nourished in contemplative surroundings, in Blannbekin's case drew its inspiration from urban life; Weidhaus identifies her ... Lees meer

Anne of France: Lessons for My Daughter

Sharon L Jansen

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Anne of France (1461-1522), daughter of Louis XI and sister of Charles VIII, was one of the most powerful women of the fifteenth century. She was refe... Lees meer

Hildegard of Bingen: On Natural Philosophy and Medicine

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Medieval attitudes to health and treatment revealed in Hildegard's treatise. Hildegard of Bingen [1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has... Lees meer

Angela of Foligno's Memorial

Cristina Mazzoni

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• The powerful voice of major Italian medieval woman mystic, translated with commentary. Angela of Foligno is considered by many as the greatest mystica... Lees meer

The Book of Margery Kempe

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Margery Kempe's text draws on her maternal, female body to illuminate her relationship to the divine. A unique narrative of sin, sex and salvation, Th... Lees meer

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

Katharina Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c.935 - c.975), a... Lees meer

Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine: Life and Revelations

Ulrike Wiethaus

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Female mysticism, usually nourished in contemplative surroundings, in Blannbekin's case drew its inspiration from urban life; Weithaus identifies her ... Lees meer

Anne of France: Lessons for My Daughter

Sharon L Jansen

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Anne of France (1461-1522) composed these lessons - presented as a portrait of an ideal princess - as guidance in negotiating the pitfalls facing a wo... Lees meer

The Vision of Christine de Pizan

• Hardcover | Library of Medieval Women
• Translation of Christine's autobiographical Vision, both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled state ... Lees meer

The Writings of Margaret of Oingt

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Margaret of Oingt was born around 1240 into a noble family in the French Beaujolais region, and became prioress of the Carthusian charterhouse of Pole... Lees meer

Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century Convents

Jocelyn Wogan-Browne

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• These translated letters and texts composed for younger and older women in twelfth-century convents illuminate the powerful medieval ideals of virgini... Lees meer

Goscelin of St Bertin: The Book of Encouragement and Consolation [Liber Confortatorius]

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Late eleventh-century spiritual counsel for a woman recluse, anticipating medieval advice literature for anchoresses. Goscelin's Liber Confortatorius ... Lees meer

The Paston Women: Selected Letters

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing. The Paston letters form one of only two surviving co... Lees meer

The Life of Saint Douceline, a Beguine of Provence

Kathleen Garay, Madeleine Jeay

• Hardcover | Library of Medieval Women
• Douceline de Digne, founder of the beguine community of the Ladies of Roubaud in Provence, was an important woman mystic of her time; contextual mater... Lees meer

The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena

Dayle Seidenspinner-Nunez

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Translation, with full explanatory notes, of the two works of Teresa de Cartagena, the fifteenth-century Spanish nun. This affordable, engaging and im... Lees meer

Mechthild of Magdeburg: Selections from the Flowing Light of the Godhead

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Mechthild of Magdeburg's The Flowing Light of the Godhead is one of the great surprises of German medieval literature. Compiled between c.1250 and c.1... Lees meer

The Memoirs of Helene Kottanner (1439-1440)

Maya Bijvoet Williamson

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Eye-witness account of the theft of the crown of St Stephen in 15c Hungary. Helene Kottanner was servant and confidante of the widowed Queen Elizabeth... Lees meer

Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century Convents

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Collection of letters and texts offering guidance for nuns, and including selections from Abelard's letters to Heloise. These translated letters and t... Lees meer