The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing
- Author / Editor
- Dinshaw, Carolyn, and David Wallace, eds.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Physical Description
- xix, 289 pp.
- Description
- Seventeen essays by various authors on topics that pertain to women, writing, and social conditions in England and the Continent in the late Middle Ages. None of the essay pertains to Chaucer exclusively, but references to his works recur throughout, especially in Barbara A. Hanawalt's chapter, "Widows," where she comments on a number of Chaucer's works (NPT, FrT, WBP, MerT, PrT, and TC), and Alcuin Blamire's "Beneath the Pulpit," which includes discussion of FrT and other Chaucerian works (MilT, WBP, FranT) as evidence of the "rights, limitations, rituals, and contributions of women" in the late-medieval Church.
- Contributor
- Hanawalt, Barbara A.
- Blamires, Alcuin.
- Wallace, David, ed.
- Alternative Title
- "Widows."
- "Beneath the Pulpit."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Friar and His Tale