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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Dear Sister. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1993 (OCoLC)756460017 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Karen Cherewatuk; Ulrike Wiethaus |
| ISBN: | 0812231708 9780812231700 0812214374 9780812214376 |
| OCLC Number: | 27676150 |
| Description: | viii, 215 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Radegund and epistolary tradition / Karen Cherewatuk -- Visions and rhetorical strategy in the letters of Hildegard of Bingen / Gillian T.W. Ahlgren -- "Wholly guilty, wholly innocent" : self-definition in Heloise's letters to Abelard / Glenda McLeod -- "Io Catarina" : ecclesiastical politics and oral culture in the letters of Catherine of Siena / Karen Scott -- "No writing for writing's sake" : the language of service and household rhetoric in the letters of the Paston women / Diane Watt -- "Seulette a part" : the "little woman on the sidelines" takes up her pen : the letters of Christine de Pizan / Earl Jeffrey Richards -- "If I had an iron body" : femininity and religion in the letters of Maria de Hout / Ulrike Wiethaus. |
| Series Title: | Middle Ages series. |
| Other Titles: | Medieval women and the epistolary genre. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Karen Cherewatuk and Ulrike Wiethaus. |
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- Letters -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Historiography.
- Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
- Letter writing -- History -- To 1500.
- Literary form -- History -- To 1500.
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- Vrouwen.
- Frau.
- Brief.

