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Texts with introduction, notes, and interpretative essays, illuminating women's intellectual and spiritual life in the middle ages. Ideally suited for the classroom or for any medievalist or general reader looking for an introduction to the author... The standard of scholarship and critical acumen in all of these volumes is uniformly very high. SPECULUM [Charles Nelson]<BR><BR>Very useful introductions. MEDIUM AEVUM <BR><BR> These texts make [an extraordinarily valuable contribution to medieval studies. They're highly readable, teachable, affordable, and well-executed.] They'll expand the state of scholarship on medieval women; and more specifically, they'll enhance our understanding of medieval culture in general by showing how women participated vitally as travel writers, historians, writers of epics, and playwrights. <BR><BR> In publishing the `Library of Medieval Women', Boydell & Brewer performs an extremely valuable service for scholars and students of medieval studies, as well as to general readers interested in this fascinating era. The `Library' documents the vital and diverse contributions of women to medieval culture, a field that is just recently beginning to receive the attention that it deserves. The present texts hint at the rich diversity and erudition in the scope of medieval women's literary production.Anne Clark Bartlett, DePaul University.

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9 results in Library of Medieval Women

The Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters

Goscelin of St Bertin
  • The Book of Encouragement and Consolation [Liber Confortatorius]
  • Translated by Monika C. Otter
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 March 2023
    Print publication:
    01 September 2004
  • Late eleventh century spiritual counsel for a woman recluse, anticipating medieval advice literature for anchoresses.

Women's Books of Hours in Medieval England
  • Translated by Charity Scott-Stokes
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 March 2023
    Print publication:
    23 March 2006
  • English translation of a variety of texts from women's books of hours, with introduction, notes, and an interpretive essay.

Caritas Pirckheimer
  • A Journal of the Reformation Years, 1524-1528
  • Translated by Paul A. MacKenzie
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 March 2023
    Print publication:
    20 July 2006
  • Caritas Pirckheimer was the abbess of St Clare's in Nürnberg. Her Journal depicts her struggle against the city council's attempts to reform and close her nunnery.

Anne of France
  • Lessons for my Daughter
  • Sharon L. Jansen
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 March 2023
    Print publication:
    01 September 2004
  • Anne of France (1461-1522) composed these lessons - presented as a portrait of an ideal princess - as guidance in negotiating the pitfalls facing a woman in the world of politics.

Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry
  • Secular and Religious Songs
  • Translated by Albrecht Classen
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 March 2023
    Print publication:
    14 October 2004
  • A considerable collection of German women's poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research.

Old Norse Women's Poetry

A Revelation of Purgatory

Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century Convents
  • Translated by Vera Morton
  • Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    29 April 2017
    Print publication:
    06 November 2003
  • These translated letters and texts composed for younger and older women in twelfth-century convents illuminate the powerful medieval ideals of virginity and chastity. They show that the literature of virginity and chastity could offer a wide range of role models and precedents for women in the medieval church, both in their spiritual formation and in the practical concerns of their monastic lives. Abelard's history of women's roles in the church and his letter on women's education, both written for Heloise in her work as abbess, are seen here alongside previously untranslated letters and texts for abbesses and nuns in England and France. Osbert of Clare, Goscelin of St Bertin and the women of Barking together with Peter the Venerable and the women of Marcigny offer fresh comparisons and contexts for the famous correspondence of Heloise and Abelard, as well as insight into the rich literary and cultural life of other women and men in religion. An interpretive essay explores the practical and spiritual engagement of women's convents with medieval commemorative and memorial practices, showing that the professional concern of women religious with death goes far beyond the stereotype of nuns as dead to the world, or enclosed in living death.

    VERA MORTON gained an MA in Medieval Studies at the University of Liverpool in 1994. JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE is Professor of English at Fordham University, NY.