Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 8337
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Diamond , Arlyn.
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  • Title: Revelations and Re-evaluations: Medieval Women [the author argues that the four books under review (Helen Damico and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen, eds., "New Readings on Women in Old English Literature;" Bella Millet and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, eds., "Medieval English Prose for Women: Selections from the 'Katherine Group' and 'Ancrene Wisse;'" Joel T. Rosenthal, ed., "Medieval Women and the Sources of Medieval History;" and Katharina M. Wilson and Elizabeth M. Makowski, "Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage: Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer") demonstrate that the study of women in the Middle Ages has reached a new level of understanding, more nuanced and specific than in the past].
  • Source: Medievalia et Humanistica New Series 19, ( 1993): Pages 147 - 158.
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  • Article Type: Review Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Misogyny Readers Women in Literature Women's History
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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  • Year of Publication: 1993.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00766127