Women’s Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages

Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and period boundaries.

ForewordDiane WattAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Medieval Women's Literary Cultures and Thinking Beyond the LocalLiz Herbert McAvoy and Sue NiebrzydowskiPART 1: Comparison and Dialogue1. Speaking Across the Stars: Parallel Affective Communities in Islamic and Christian HagiographyAyoush Lazikani2. Women's Mystical Friendships: Margery Kempe and MirabaiAlexandra Verini3. Women's Writing in the Japanese Heian Period: A Medieval Dialogue between the East and WestNaoë Kukita YoshikawaPART 2: Constructing Gender and Genre4. The Genre of the Late Medieval Personalised Orthodox Slavic Women's Miscellany: Three 'Existential' QuestionsMichel de Dobbeleer5. The Role of Kisaeng Sijo Poets in Medieval Korean LiteratureKo Jeong-hee and Justin M. Byron-Davies6. Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya: Gender, Authority and Paradox in Attar's Tadhkirat al-'awliya and the Mantiq al-tayrShazia Jagot7. Deception, Infanticide, and the Making of a Female Saint: A Look at the Gädl Kr¿stos ¿ämraMeron T. GebreananayePART 3: Saintly Performance and Marian Piety8. 'Of our Lady thassumpcion': A European Context for the Worshipful Wives of Chester and their Marian PlaySue Niebrzydowski9. Mary and Elizabeth: Male Perspectives of Female-Coded Piety in Offices for the VisitationRhianydd Hallas10. Speaking Internationally in Female Communities on the Eastern Borders of Medieval EuropeRenáta Modráková11. Textual Phantoms and Spectral Presences: The Coming to Rest of Mechthild of Hackeborn's Writing in the Late Middle AgesLiz Herbert McAvoy12. Negotiating the Abject and the Sublime: The Centrality of Discourse Communities within Women's Mystical ExperienceKathryn LoveridgePART 4: Evidence and the Archives: Revisiting and Reconsidering13. 'Ic þæt secgan mæg': Women, Song, Story, PresenceElaine Treharne14. In the Undergrowth: Llwyn a Pherth and Sexual Deviancy in Medieval WalesCeridwen Lloyd-Morgan and Sara Elin Roberts15. 'I shall send yw money to by such stufe as I wull haue': The Paston ShoppersVicki Kay PriceAfterword: Intersectionality and CoalitionsJonathan HsyList of ContributorsBibliography