A Room of One's Own : Reale und mentale Innenraume weiblicher Selbstbestimmung im spatmittelalterlichen England
- Author / Editor
- Kern-Stahler, Annette.
A Room of One's Own : Reale und mentale Innenraume weiblicher Selbstbestimmung im spatmittelalterlichen England
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2002.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 358 pp. : 1 color illus.; 77 b&w illus.
- Series
- Tradition-Reform-Innovation, Studien zur Modernitat des Mittelalters, no. 3.
- Description
- Examines interior space in late medieval English architecture, manuscript illumination, and literature, focusing on homes, churches, and their imagery as they helped to shape feminine identity.
- Topics include Margaret Beaufort and her circle, Richard Rolle, Margery Kempe, cycle plays, "The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ," and works by Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and others. Recurrent attention to CT, LGW, and especially TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Legend of Good Women.