Women's Friendship in Medieval Literature
In Women's Friendship in Medieval Literature, Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala bring together established scholars and new voices to illuminate a previously understudied but consequential element of life in the Middle Ages. Contributors focus on representations of women's friendships i...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbus, OH :
The Ohio State University Press
2022.
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| Colección: | Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009710451906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Female friendships and visionary women / Jennifer N. Brown
- The foundations of friendship: Amicitia, literary production, and spiritual community in Marie de France / Stella Wang
- Friendship and resistance in the Vitae of Italian holy women / Andrea Boffa
- Sisters and friends: the medieval nuns of Syon Abbey / Alexandra Verini
- "Amonge maydenes moo": gender-based community, racial thinking, and aristocratic women's work in Emaré / Lydia Yaitsky Kertz
- Women's communities and the possibility of friendship in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur / Usha Vishnuvajjala
- Female friendship in late medieval English literature: cultural translation in Chaucer, Gower, and Malory / Melissa Ridley Elmes
- Cultivating cummarship: female friendship, alcohol, and pedagogical community in the alewife poem / Carissa M. Harris
- "All these relationships between women": Chaucer and the Bechdel test for female friendship / Karma Lochrie
- The politics of virtual friendship in Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies / Christine Chism
- Prosthetic friendship and the theater of fraternity / Laurie A. Finke
- Conversations among friends: Ælfflæd, Iurminburg, and the arts of storytelling / Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing
- Afterword: Friendship at a distance / Penelope Anderson.
