The Writings of Medieval Women: An AnthologyMarcelle Thiébaux "Royal and saintly women are well-represented here, with the welcome addition of women from the Mediterranean arc...Garland has done a solid job of presenting this book." -- Arthuriana |
Contents
Prisoner Dreamer Martyr | 3 |
A Pilgrim to the Holy Land | 23 |
Calumniated Empress and Poet | 49 |
An IllFated Gothic Queen | 71 |
Three Consecrated Women of Merovingian Gaul | 85 |
Words Flowing Like Gold Fringes | 125 |
Barbarian Women Holy Women | 135 |
Mother to a Young Warrior | 153 |
I Am of France | 277 |
Good Queen Maud | 293 |
A Benedictine Visionary in the Rhineland | 315 |
Handmaid of God | 349 |
Brides of the Celestial Bedchamber | 385 |
A Woman of Letters at the French Court | 413 |
An Anchoress of England | 441 |
Four English Women of the Fifteenth Century | 467 |
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