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'This book makes a statement, not simply about medieval women, but about medieval life. With chapters on ecclesiastical women, noble and royal women, townswomen, readers and patrons the volume offers a broad understanding of the interests, complexities, and dynamics of medieval life. The arrangement of the essays makes it easy to navigate among topics and interests. The essays are cogent; the bibliographies are good, and the entire volume gives readers a sense of the many ways in which women were involved with a broadly conceived literary culture in the Middle Ages.' Lynn Staley, Colgate University 'This groundbreaking volume of essays extends our collective knowledge of medieval British women's literary culture, and indeed our sense of what constitutes a literary culture, in consistently learned and illuminating ways. The product of deep research and long conversation, it represents both a milestone in the field and a provocation to further work across the wide range of centuries, settings, and genres addressed by its contributors.' Nicholas Watson, Harvard University 'As one might expect from two such distinguished scholars in the field of medieval women's writing, Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt have solicited a wealth of new research from their contributors on women and literary culture throughout the long medieval period. This excellent volume is not only brimful with information but shapes the role of women in freshly ambitious terms, ranging both widely and in illuminating detail across manuscript culture, female reading communities, medicine, genre, and language. It will become an indispensable scholarly and teaching resource.' Ardis Butterfield, Yale University

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Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies, Durham University. Her third monograph, Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance, was published in 2010. Recent co-edited books include The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture, and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary (2021) and Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (2020). She is English Editor for the journal Medium Ævum. Diane Watt is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Surrey. Her previous books include Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650–1100 (2019), Medieval Women's Writing: Books By and For Women in England, 1100–1500 (2007), Amoral Gower: Language, Sex and Politics (2003), and Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (1997).

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