'Women Talking about the Things of God': A Late Medieval Sub-culture
- Author / Editor
- Riddy, Felicity.
'Women Talking about the Things of God': A Late Medieval Sub-culture
- Published
- Carol M. Meale, ed. Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 104-27.
- Description
- Contrasts Julian of Norwich's "Revelation of Love" as an "insider's" representation of feminine literary subculture with Chaucer's depictions in PrT and SNT and with materials in the Vernon manuscript. Even Chaucer could not achieve the "inwardness" evident in Julian.
- Alternative Title
- Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.