Women's Writing in Middle English

<p>Women's writing in any period remains of critical concern both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Alexandra Barratt's edition offers a wide range of texts from the period 1300-1500 including:</p><ul> <li>Original texts written by women in the Middle Ages </li> <li>Texts translated by women in the Middle Ages </li> <li>Prayers meditations scriptural comment and accounts of religious experiences </li> <li>Educational writings </li> <li>Romance poetry</li> </ul><p>Each poem is given a headnote giving details of composition manuscript and sources. Full on-page annotation is provided giving details of allusions to contemporary religious historical and social issues. A general introduction gives context to all the pieces and provides a penetrating account of the role of women in a burgeoning society of literary and cultural transmission.</p>