Dear Sister : medieval women and the epistolary genre /

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Other Authors: Cherewatuk, Karen, Wiethaus, Ulrike
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1993.
Series:Middle Ages series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Radegund and epistolary tradition / Karen Cherewatuk
  • Visions and rhetorical strategy in the letters of Hildegard of Bingen / Gillian T.W. Ahlgren
  • "Wholly guilty, wholly innocent" : self-definition in Heloise's letters to Abelard / Glenda McLeod
  • "Io Catarina" : ecclesiastical politics and oral culture in the letters of Catherine of Siena / Karen Scott
  • "No writing for writing's sake" : the language of service and household rhetoric in the letters of the Paston women / Diane Watt
  • "Seulette a part" : the "little woman on the sidelines" takes up her pen : the letters of Christine de Pizan / Earl Jeffrey Richards
  • "If I had an iron body" : femininity and religion in the letters of Maria de Hout / Ulrike Wiethaus.