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Medieval Women Writers. Katharina M. Wilson. Manchester University Press, - European literature - pages. 0 Reviews. This is one of the first anthologies devoted to the writings of . Edited by Katharina M. Wilson, this anthology introduces the works of twenty-five women writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, among them Marie Dentière, a Swiss evangelical reformer whose writings were so successful they were banned during her lifetime; Gaspara Stampa, a cultivated courtesan of Venetian aristocratic circles who wrote lyric poetry that has earned her comparisons to 5/5(1). KATHARINA M. WILSON is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Georgia. She is the author of several books and the editor of Medieval Women Writers (Georgia). Tell the Publisher!5/5(2).

Medieval Women Writers. Katharina M. Wilson. Manchester University Press, - European literature - pages. 0 Reviews. This is one of the first anthologies devoted to the writings of women in the Middle Ages. The fifteen women whose works are represented span seven centuries, eight languages, and ten regions or nationalities. The experiences of women in the Middle Ages have been receiving growing amounts of attention, and we are only now beginning to appreciate the full extent of their contributions. Women significantly shaped medieval political, economic, and cultural life as rulers, religious leaders, wives. James Marchand, "The Frankish Mother: Dhuoda," in Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina M. Wilson (Athens: University of Georgia Press, ), pp. World Eras ×.

Katharina Wilson University of Georgia MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS, edited by Katharina M. Wilson. Athens: University of Georgia Press, pp. $ cloth; $ paper. A primary task undertaken by scholars of women's literature in the past fifteen years has been, in Germaine Greer's prefatory words to the first issue. Edited by Katharina M. Wilson, this anthology introduces the works of twenty-five women writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, among them Marie Dentière, a Swiss evangelical reformer whose writings were so successful they were banned during her lifetime; Gaspara Stampa, a cultivated courtesan of Venetian aristocratic circles who wrote lyric poetry that has earned her comparisons to Michelangelo and Tasso; Hélisenne de Crenne, a French aristocrat who embodied the true spirit of the. Medieval Women Writers edited by Katharina M Wilson. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, xxix, pp. ISBN