Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua ((Dagger) 203) to Marguerite Porete ((Dagger) 1310)

by Peter Dronke

Book Overview

This book gives a detailed picture of the contributions made by women writers to Western literature from the third century to the thirteenth. Many of the texts Peter Dronke presents and interprets... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521275733
• ISBN13: 9780521275736
• Release Date: May 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Resource

I checked this book out to use as a resource for a paper I was doing on St. Perpetua. I ended up reading more from the other chapters than the one I was supposed to be studying. This book has a wealth of information about many notable Medieval women. The chapter on Hildegard von Bingen and Marguerite Porete are of especial interest. There are also original Latin and French texts included for those who enjoy using primary sources.