| Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England Contributor(s): Erler, Mary C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521812216 ISBN-13: 9780521812214 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $132.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2002 Annotation: Mary Erler traces networks of female book ownership and exchange which have so far been obscure, and shows how women were responsible for owning as well as circulating devotional books. Seven narratives of individual women who lived between 1350 and 1550 are enclosed by an overview of nuns' reading and their surviving books, and a survey of women who owned the first printed books in England. An appendix lists a number of books not previously attributed to female ownership. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 274.205 |
| LCCN: 2001043945 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.44" W x 9.28" (1.09 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Erler, Mary C.: - Mary Erler is Professor of English at Fordham University. She has edited the work of the Tudor poet Robert Copland (1993) and has co-edited Women and Power in the Middle Ages (1988). She has written on devotional literature in L. Hellinga and J. B. Trapp (eds.), Cambridge History of the Book, Vol. 3, 1400 1557 (1999). Her essays have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, Viator, The Library, Modern Philology, Medieval Studies, Medium Aewm, and other journals. |