Early English Devotional Prose: Female Audience

by Elizabeth Robertson

After the NOrman conquest, women and the lower classes became the primary audiences for English, as opposed to Latin or French, literature. Among the works written for female audiences are the hitherto neglected AB texts: three female saints' lives, a tract on virginity, a homily, and a guide for anchoresses. In this lucid, innovative study, Elizabeth Robertson shows that the AB texts were written in an effective experiential style that distinguished...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870496417
• ISBN13: 9780870496417
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"