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Dear Sister : medieval women and the epistolary genre
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- Creator
- edited by Karen Cherewatuk and Ulrike Wiethaus
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1993]
- ©1993
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- Physical Details
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- viii, 215 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780812231700, 0812231708, 9780812214376, 0812214374
- OCLC
- ocm27676150
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-206) and index.
- Radegund and epistolary tradition / Karen Cherewatuk -- Visions and rhetorical strategy in the letters of Hildegard of Bingen / Gillian T.W. Ahlgren -- "Wholly guilty, wholly innocent" : self-definition in Heloise's letters to Abelard / Glenda McLeod -- "Io Catarina" : ecclesiastical politics and oral culture in the letters of Catherine of Siena / Karen Scott -- "No writing for writing's sake" : the language of service and household rhetoric in the letters of the Paston women / Diane Watt -- "Seulette a part" : the "little woman on the sidelines" takes up her pen : the letters of Christine de Pizan / Earl Jeffrey Richards -- "If I had an iron body" : femininity and religion in the letters of Maria de Hout / Ulrike Wiethaus