Writing Religious Women
Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England
Editor(s) Denis Renevey,Christiania Whitehead
Language: English
Genre(s): Gender Studies, Medieval, Religion
- November 2000 · 272 pages ·216x138mm
- · Paperback - 9780708316412
- · Hardback - 9780708316429
This work addresses the question of female spirituality within medieval theological and devotional writings by examining texts in which women play a significant role, either as authors, recipients, or subjects. It suggests that these texts express the idea of "female vernacular theology".
Author(s): Denis Renevey
Denis Renevey is a lecturer in Medieval Literature at the Universities of Fribourg and Lausanne. He is the co-editor of Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England and the author of numerous articles dealing with medieval mysticism.Author(s): Christiania Whitehead
Christiania Whitehead is a lecturer in Middle English at the University of Warwick. She is the editor (with Denis Renevey) of Writing Religious Women (UWP, 2000) and has published articles dealing with medieval allegory in Medium Aevum and The Downside Review.