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This book is devoted to medieval Iberian women, readers and writers. Focusing on the stories and texts women heard, visually experienced or read, and the stories that they rewrote, the work explores women's experiences and cultural practices and their efforts to make sense of their place within their familial networks and communities. The study is based on two methodological and interpretive threads: a new paradigm to represent premodern reading and, a study of women's writing, or, more precisely, women's textualities, as a process of creating words but also acts, social practices, emotions and, ultimately, affectus, understood here as the embodiment of the ability to affect and be affected.

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Literary scholar Montserrat Piera's timely and thoroughly researched monograph, Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Iberia: Spinning the Text, is a welcome and excellent addition. [...] It is a very welcome addition to the English-language corpus, and will be of considerable and durable value to Ibericists and non-Ibericists alike . Zita Eva Rohr, in Parergon, 37.2 (2020).

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Montserrat Piera, Ph.D. (1991), Pennsylvania State University, is Professor of Medieval Iberian Studies at Temple University. She has published several books, edited collections and articles on topics as varied as chivalresque literature, medieval travel and the representation of food in medieval texts.

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