This volume examines the common medieval notion of life experience as a source of wisdom and traces that theme through different texts and genres to uncover the

The women who spoke or wrote in the margins of the Middle Ages—women who were oppressed and diminished by social and religious institutions—often were not l

A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world soci

Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it i

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of