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Product Description: Women's writing in any period remains of critical concern, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Alexandra Barratt's edition offers a wide range of texts from the period 1300-1500, including: Original texts written by women in the Middle Ages Texts translated by women in the Middle Ages Prayers, meditations, scriptural comment, and accounts of religious experiences Educational writings Romance, poetry Each poem is given a headnote, giving details of composition, manuscript and sources...read more
By Alexandra Barratt (editor)

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9781138837591 | 2 revised edition (Routledge, November 10, 2014), cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Women's writing in any period remains of critical concern, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

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Product Description: Placed in the monastery of Helfta, in Upper Saxony, at the age of five, Gertrud began having Visions and writing at twenty-five. The first two Books of The Herald were written by her own hand; Book Three, compiled twenty years later by another member of the community, 'expounds something of the favors lavished on or revealed to her'...read more

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9780879070632 | Cistercian Pubns, January 1, 1999, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Placed in the monastery of Helfta, in Upper Saxony, at the age of five, Gertrud began having Visions and writing at twenty-five.

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Product Description: Placed in the monastery of Helfa, in Upper Saxony, at the age of five, Gertrud began having Visions and writing at twenty-five. The first two Books of The Herald were written by her own hand; Book Three, compiled twenty years later by another member of the community, 'expounds something of the favors lavished on or revealed to her'...read more

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9780879074630 | Cistercian Pubns, January 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Placed in the monastery of Helfa, in Upper Saxony, at the age of five, Gertrud began having Visions and writing at twenty-five.

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Product Description: This is the first edition of a translation into English of an Old French Commentary on the Penitential Psalms, made in the fifteenth century by Dame Eleanor Hull, wife of Sir John Hull, a retainer of John of Gaunt. Eleanor Hull was a devout laywoman, lady-in-waiting to the second wife of Henry IV, who spent some of her life in Sopwell Priory, a house of Benedictine nuns attached to St...read more
By Alexandra Barratt (editor)

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9780197223093 | Early English Text Society, May 23, 1996, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This is the first edition of a translation into English of an Old French Commentary on the Penitential Psalms, made in the fifteenth century by Dame Eleanor Hull, wife of Sir John Hull, a retainer of John of Gaunt.

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Product Description: This impressive and pioneering anthology presents extracts in the original Middle English of the various kinds of medieval texts in which women were involved. It explores their place in medieval literary culture and invites readers to judge whether there is such a thing as `women's writing' in the Middle Ages...read more
By Alexandra Barratt (editor)

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9780582061927 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, September 1, 1992, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: This impressive and pioneering anthology presents extracts in the original Middle English of the various kinds of medieval texts in which women were involved.

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Product Description: Placed in the monastery of Helfa, in Upper Saxony, at the age of five, Gertrud began having Visions and writing at twenty-five.Book 1, written by a nun of Helfta, reveals the personality and virtues of Gertrud. Avoiding hagiographical commonplaces, the writer reveals both the strengths and the shortcomings of her very human and very committed heroine...read more

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9780879074555 | Cistercian Pubns, November 1, 1991, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Placed in the monastery of Helfa, in Upper Saxony, at the age of five, Gertrud began having Visions and writing at twenty-five.

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