Women’s Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages (EPDF) von Kathryn Loveridge

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

Foreword
Diane Watt
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Medieval Women's Literary Cultures and Thinking Beyond the Local
Liz Herbert McAvoy and Sue Niebrzydowski

PART 1: Comparison and Dialogue
1. Speaking Across the Stars: Parallel Affective Communities in Islamic and Christian Hagiography
Ayoush Lazikani
2. Women's Mystical Friendships: Margery Kempe and Mirabai
Alexandra Verini
3. Women's Writing in the Japanese Heian Period: A Medieval Dialogue between the East and West
Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa

PART 2: Constructing Gender and Genre
4. The Genre of the Late Medieval Personalised Orthodox Slavic Women's Miscellany: Three 'Existential' Questions
Michel de Dobbeleer
5. The Role of KisaengSijo Poets in Medieval Korean Literature
Ko Jeong-hee and Justin M. Byron-Davies
6. Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya: Gender, Authority and Paradox in Attar'sTadhkirat al-'awliya and theMantiq al-tayr
Shazia Jagot
7. Deception, Infanticide, and the Making of a Female Saint: A Look at theGädl Krəstos Śämra
Meron T. Gebreananaye

PART 3: Saintly Performance and Marian Piety
8. 'Of our Lady thassumpcion': A European Context for the Worshipful Wives of Chester and their Marian Play
Sue Niebrzydowski
9. Mary and Elizabeth: Male Perspectives of Female-Coded Piety in Offices for the Visitation
Rhianydd Hallas
10. Speaking Internationally in Female Communities on the Eastern Borders of Medieval Europe
Renáta Modráková
11. Textual Phantoms and Spectral Presences: The Coming to Rest of Mechthild of Hackeborn's Writing in the Late Middle Ages
Liz Herbert McAvoy
12. Negotiating the Abject and the Sublime: The Centrality of Discourse Communities within Women's Mystical Experience
Kathryn Loveridge

PART 4: Evidence and the Archives: Revisiting and Reconsidering
13. 'Ic þæt secgan mæg': Women, Song, Story, Presence
Elaine Treharne
14. In the Undergrowth:Llwyn a Pherth and Sexual Deviancy in Medieval Wales
Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan and Sara Elin Roberts
15. 'I shall send yw money to by such stufe as I wull haue': The Paston Shoppers
Vicki Kay Price

Afterword: Intersectionality and Coalitions
Jonathan Hsy
List of Contributors
Bibliography