ESSE 2018 Conference Seminar "Writing (about) Women in Medieval England"
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
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| Description | The seminar will be centred on the topic of medieval English women’s literary activities, including reading, writing, corresponding, and literary patronage. In a broader sense, the individual papers might address discussions of femininity and gender by medieval authors. The ambition of the panel is to combine feminist, historical and literary-historical approaches to medieval literature and present the variety of roles played by women in the composition and reception of medieval texts. Although the main focus of the panel will be high and late medieval England, parallels from Continental literatures and cultures might also be introduced. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: female authorship and literary patronage; female readership; moral treatises for women; female political and religious correspondence; female piety and its literary representations; other roles of women in the imaginative space of medieval culture; women as literary heroines. |
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