Abstract

General Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Women in the Middle Ages 1.1 The Middle Ages 1.2 Imagining Women 1.3 Historicizing Women 1.4 Anglo-Saxon Women 1.5 Women after the Norman Conquest 1.6 Women at the End of the Middle Ages 2. Women and Regimes of Writing in the Middle Ages 2.1 The Languages of Literary Production 2.2 Women and Literacy 2.3 Authorship and Patronage 2.4 The Printing Press 2.5 Women Writers? 3. The Genres of Women's Writing in the Middle Ages 3.1 Lyric Poetry 3.2 Dream Visions 3.3 Romance 3.4 Hagiography 3.5 Drama 3.6 Epistolary 3.7 Practical Treatises 3.8 Devotional and Visionary Literature 4. Major Authors 4.1 Marie de France 4.2 Julian of Norwich 4.3 Margery Kempe 4.4 The Paston Women 4.5 Christine de Pizan in England Chronology Bibliography

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