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Women, the Book, and the Worldly: Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda's Conference, Oxford, Volume II »

Authors: Lesley Smith (Editor), Jane H. Taylor
ISBN-13: 9780859914796, ISBN-10: 0859914798
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Date Published: October 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Studies of women's roles in the secular literary world, as patrons, authors, readers, and characters in secular literature.

	Abbreviations
	Introduction
	Women, Literacy and Invisibility in Southern Italy, 900-1200	1
	Female Readers in Froissart: Implied, Fictive and Other	13
	'That wommen holde in ful greet reverence': Mothers and Daughters Reading Chivalric Romances	25
	Pilfering Vegetius? Christine de Pizan's Faits d'Armes et de Chevalerie	31
	The Consolation of a Woman Writer: Christine de Pizan's Use of Boethius in Lavision-Christine	39
	In the Voice of Women: Chinese Love Poetry in the Early Middle Ages	49
	Women, Authority and the Book in the Middle Ages	61
	Francesca da Rimini and Dante's Women Readers	71
	The Variant Passages in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and the Textual Transmission of The Canterbury Tales: The 'Great Tradition' Revisited	85
	Philippe de Remi's Manekine: Joie and Pain	103
	Women as Readers, Women as Text in the Roman de la Rose	111
	Reclaiming the Woman in the Book: Marie de France and the Fables	119
	Lydgate's Lyrics and Women Readers	139
	William Caxton, Margaret Beaufort and the Romance of Female Patronage	151
	Apocryphal Entries: Judith and the Politics of Caxton's Golden Legend	167
	Index of Manuscripts	183
	General Index	185