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Although Written To Increase Their Female Audience's Religious Fervor, Devotional Texts Implicitly Promoted Cultural Values Drawn From Other Discourses As Well. Within The Same Text, Bartlett Shows, A Woman Reader Might Be Invited To Identify Not Only With The Temptress Reviled By Misogynistic Ascetics, But Simultaneously With The Courtly Domina, The Supportive Spiritual Friend Of The Author, Or With The Erotic Sponsa Christi. Because Of The Varying Levels Of Literacy Of Medieval Women Readers, However - As Well As The Abundance Of Competing Representations Of Those Readers - The Overt Messages Of Devotional Texts Were Interrupted And Distorted. As Bartlett Analyzes The Complex Relationship Between Misogynistic Literature And The Development Of Female Subjectivity In The Middle Ages, She Helps Refute The Assumption Common Among Feminist Critics That Women Necessarily Internalize Negative Portrayals. An Appendix Lists And Describes All Extant Books And Manuscripts That Were Owned By Medieval English Nuns And Convents. I. Reading Medieval Women Reading Devotional Literature -- Ii. Gendering And Regendering: The Case Of De Institutione Inclusarum -- Iii. Letters Of Love: Feminine Cour

Author

Anne Clark Bartlett

Publisher

Ithaca: Cornell University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801430381

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities