'Women Talking about the Things of God': A Late Medieval Sub-culture

Author / Editor
Riddy, Felicity.

Title
'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.