Alexandra Barratt 
Women »s Writing in Middle English [PDF ebook] 
An Annotated Anthology

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:

• Original texts written by women in the Middle Ages


• Texts translated by women in the Middle Ages


• Prayers, meditations, scriptural comment, and accounts of religious experiences


• Educational writings


• Romance, poetry

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.