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Women prisoners --- Women --- Femmes --- Prisonnières --- History --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Histoire --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Women prisoners - Great Britain - History --- Women - Great Britain - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Women - Great Britain - Social conditions --- Femmes - Grande-Bretagne - Conditions sociales --- Prisonnières - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire --- Great Britain - History - Medieval period, 1066-1485 --- Grande-Bretagne - Histoire - 1066-1485 (Moyen Age)

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This collection of essays focuses on the questions of women's access to a written culture in medieval Britain and their representation within it. It explores women's engagement with Anglo-Norman, English and Welsh as well as Latin, and addresses issues including orality and literacy and women's exclusion from a written tradition. It considers the question of the levels of literacy attained by women, and contemporary attitudes to their acquisition of such skills, as well as the historical evidence for women's activity as writers, patrons and readers. It also examines the representation of women within different literary genres, both secular and religious - their possession or lack of power, and their roles as lovers, mothers and saints. This is the first such volume to focus on these issues within the specific framework of late medieval Britain, and as such constitutes a unique contribution to the study of women and medieval literary history.

Anglo-Norman literature --- British literature --- English literature --- Women and literature --- Women --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Books and reading --- History. --- 82:396 --- 820 "13/16" --- 028-055.2 --- -English literature --- -Women --- -British literature --- -Women and literature --- -028-055.2 Vrouwelijke lezers --- Vrouwelijke lezers --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- Literature --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- French literature --- 820 "13/16" Engelse literatuur--?"13/16" --- Engelse literatuur--?"13/16" --- -History and criticism --- History and criticism --- -Books and reading --- -History --- -Bibliography --- 028-055.2 Vrouwelijke lezers --- Women authors&delete& --- Books and reading&delete& --- Great Britain --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- Literature [Medieval ] --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Literatures --- Women and literature - Great Britain - History. --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism. --- Anglo-Norman literature - Women authors - History and criticism. --- Literature, Medieval - Women authors - History and criticism. --- English literature - Women authors - History and criticism. --- Women - Great Britain - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500. --- Women - Great Britain - Books and reading - History. --- Great Britain - Literatures. --- Literature, Medieval --- British literature. --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Old English literature --- anno 1200-1499 --- Arts and Humanities --- WOMEN AND LITERATURE --- ENGLISH LITERATURE --- ANGLO-NORMAN LITERATURE --- MEDIEVAL LITERATURE --- GREAT BRITAIN --- HISTORY --- MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1100-1500 --- WOMEN AUTHORS