Rethinking the history of women's writing and literary history itself, this second volume in the Series 'The History of British Women's Writing' examines the diversity of early women's writing (from verse and songs to household records and recipes), offering a new paradigm for understanding women's shaping roles in the literary, religious, and political movements of the sixteenth century.
This volume, the first in the Series 'The History of British Women's Writing', focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself.